Using Parts of Windows 2000 in Windows XP

During the days of using Windows 2000 I noticed that with a folder of .jpg images you could hold your cursor over a jpg file and a small thumb nail of the image would pop up to show you what the image was. Now that I've switched to Windows XP, this small convenient pop up no longer appears. Is there any way I can get this to be a part of XP? Is it possible to copy the pop up function from Windows 2000 and post it into XP?

 

You can download and install Coxtext Viewer

http://www.virtualplastic.net/html/toptools.html

Context Viewer - image preview and more in rightclick menuContext Viewer lets you preview various files in the context menu (doesn't support .gif natively). The best part is that the user can define which files are to been seen in the context menu. That opens up a few doors for tweaking. Text files work absolutely fine. The app is in Japanese, but The Serpent Mage did send us a translation, which was made available at the homepage(!). But homepage is down, no clue on its future. Since we intermediated, it seems safe to provide (english) download.
For .gif and more extensions you can use susie plugins, available around. Just create a directory somewhere, put the extracted plugin in, run context viewers control panel applet. At the plugins tab, browse to your directory, restart and you're done.
Get the file here (336 kB), a working plugin for .gif here and find much more (links to) plugins (.png and more) here!

 

With XP you can also see all the pictures in a folder as thumbnails: open the folder, click on View at the top of the page then click on Thumbnails. Done