I would appreciate any advice or re-direction to a place where I might find a solution to this issue. Restore the preview pane functionality for Outlook e-mails. I have been scouring the internet looking for a solution for more than a year and believe me, I've tried everything suggested here in this thread and more. I had become very dependent on this functionality. (6) On Advance settings, Scroll down and check Show preview handlers in preview pane.

(4) The Folder Options dialog box will appear. To check if Preview feature is enabled, please follow these steps: (3) Select and click Folder and search options. Message' type) return the 'No preview available' message in the preview pane.Īny Outlook message can be viewed in full from the by double-clicking it, but the preview pane is incredibly powerful way to browse search results. However, make sure that the Windows 7 Explorer Preview feature is enabled. Most messages with similar attachments (Search detects as 'Outlook E-mail Update, only only certain messages with attachments (that Search detects as Excel, or Powerpoint file type, for example) display the email body correctly in the preview panel. Before that, all search results of type 'Outlook E-mail Message' displayed the email-body correctly in the Windows Search preview pane. Click 'Apply' and your preview pane should now show a large image. Scroll down and check the box next to 'Show preview handlers in preview pane'. Setting the subkeys Content Type to text/plain, and PerceivedType to text usually works for most filetypes. Click 'Tools' Click 'Folder Options' in the windows that opens, the click the 'View' tab. I have had this exact same problem, since the 'Creators Update' a year ago. The new, more modern Windows 10, way of setting the preview pane to show a filetype as text is by setting two string subkeys on the filetype in HKEYCLASSESROOT.