windows is so lame!! Please help!!!!

Can somebody please tell me how i can enable the image preview in my folders? You know...after you enable web content in your folders, and if you single click on a jpeg,gif or bmp file, the attributes and the picture gets shown on the left side of the window. It was working fine like this untill i installed office 2000 with microsoft photoshop editor. After that when ever i single click on any image file, only the attributes gets shown but not the picture. To do that i have to go to customize folders and enable image preview which then creates a huge ugly box on the bottom left corner of the window like how it is in the "my pictures" folder. I want it to be like how it was previously before i installed office2000. I want it to generate the preview when i click on any image file without having to enable that huge image preview box at the bottom left of the screen.
Can anybody help me on this please???

in your windows explorer, did you click on "View", then click on "as Web Page"?