Microsoft Camera Codec

In your windows folders you have pictures, and the pictures that are from various cameras in their raw format are shown as a generic icon - you can't see the picture itself. Often don't know what the picture is until you open it in an application. I found this the other day and was shocked that I didn't know about it before. Microsoft has a camera codec pack that will show those pictures in the icon state in the Windows folders. This is a real time saver and removes yet one more thorn from your side.

Here is the link (at the date of this writing):

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=26829

Happy shooting.