Comments on: Nikon (NEF) RAW Codec for Windows Vista Free Download

By: Philip

Philip — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 10:38:50 +0000

Thank you, Cowboy!
It worked like a charm and once you’ve viewed the pictures with the x32 explorer, you can also see the thumbnails with the x64 explorer =)

By: Cowboy

Cowboy — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 19:50:05 +0000

How about this guys…..
Download and install Nikons latest 32 bit codec
Construct a shortcut with the following:
%windir%\SysWOW64\explorer.exe /separate /e, d:\pictures
Where I have D:\pictures put in any path.
Gives you all your NEF thumbnails.
I also installed FastStone viewer (free) and it gives me the nef images plus a lot more convenient tool for viewing and deleting.

By: Damian

Damian — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:01:56 +0000

Oops correction- you need to do the import oepration using Windows Photo Gallery 32 bit version- C/Program Files (x86)/Windows Photo Gallery

By: Damian

Damian — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:58:46 +0000

Ardfry’s codec works well but you have to pay.

An alternative workaround that works for me is to open Windows Photo Gallery 64 bit and then import all your RAW photos – use the Add Folder to Gallery feature. During the import process Windows Photo Gallery creates thumbnails for use within Photo Gallery. Somehow these thumbnails attach to the actual RAW photos and then when you next use Windows Explorer you will see the the RAW photos as thumbails and you can browse through them.

Note that I have the Nikon RAW codec installed as well. It installed OK on 64 bit but didnt generate thumbnails. The thumbnails only appeared after doing the import operation described above.

Thanks

Damian

By: Jeramie

Jeramie — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:15:56 +0000

Barbara, what link did you use to get to a 64bit nikon codec???

thanks much

By: Barbara

Barbara — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:53:57 +0000

Nikon Codec on Vista 64 works fine. Thank you!!

By: Damian

Damian — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 08:56:05 +0000

Thanks – great tip. 2 quick questions- any idea how to make the Nikon Codec display Raw/ NEF files in Windows Explorer ? And how do you make the 32bit version of Photo Gallery the default version ?
Thanks

By: Daryl

Daryl — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:35:52 +0000

You can use the standard Nikon Codec on Vista 64, you just have to make sure you run the 32bit photo gallery and not the 64bit. To do this, run it from the Program Files (x86) directory.

Its the simple!

By: Guy C

Guy C — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:32:27 +0000

Thanks David- works great in Vista 64

By: Jorge Muxica

Jorge Muxica — Sat, 24 May 2008 11:57:59 +0000

Cool!

By: David Blake

David Blake — Fri, 23 May 2008 21:16:00 +0000

We are working on a 64 bit NEF codec for Vista x64.

A free trial of the beta version is available.

http://www.ardfry.com/nef-codec/

By: Axel

Axel — Sat, 17 May 2008 00:25:41 +0000

I guess there is no choice but wait for Nikon to get their act together and release a 64-bit version of the NEF WIC codec.

By: Jorge Muxica

Jorge Muxica — Sun, 11 May 2008 16:46:09 +0000

I am very frustrated by not being able to see thumbnails of my D300 NEFs while I explore in Vista on this most powerful HP6700 notebook I just got. Luckily I am able to work with ViewNX and CaptureNX which absolutely terrific imaging tools that work together well! Meanwhile Adobe PS,lightroom and Corel, which I use too, are behind the eight ball somewhat.. NOTHING’s EASY.. I guess.. anyone have any updates? please advise.

By: Dan Jarvis

Dan Jarvis — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:41:17 +0000

I am still looking for NEF thumbnail support for XP 64 bit. No luck yet. This is ridiculous. It can’t be THAT hard to develop a fix for this…

Let’s go Nikon. Get it together.

By: Drew Noakes

Drew Noakes — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 10:28:36 +0000

Has anyone found a solution that allows viewing NEF (from a D300) thumbnails in Windows Explorer when running Vista 64-bit.

Also, there’s a newer version available than the one linked to in this article, so visit the page, not the direct download link. Still, it only officially supports Vista 32-bit

By: Mark Duff

Mark Duff — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 10:57:19 +0000

Hi there, I intalled ViewNX V1.0 (for free) today and it seems to be working fine with Vista 64 bit. Here is the link http://support.nikontech.com/cgi-bin/nikonusa.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=14370