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Thumbnail Previews Not Saving or Showing Correctly


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q1000101

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Hello. I am using Vista Home Edition 32-bit version SP1 and in the past few weeks my thumbnail previews have disappeared.

If I open a folder that is set for large icon view, instead of getting thumbnails and folder previews, I get blank spaces with the file name under it...

Folder upon opening:
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Now if I cycle through the various views - list, details, tiles, and back to icons - it will generate and display thumbnails ... but with two problems: (1) notice the folder images it just generated are smaller than they should be, and they are not showing any preview of what's inside the folder; and (2) the thumbnails for the jpgs are there only as long as the window is open and I don't navigate elsewhere. As soon as I leave the folder, they revert back to a blank space.

Folder after cycling through the Views button:
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Moving to another folder yields the same results: no thumbnails:
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And going back to the previous folder, and the thumbnails are gone again =(
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Folder Options -> View -> Advanced -> "Always show icons, never thumbnails" is unchecked.
System Properties -> Advanced -> Performance Settings -> "Show thumbnails instead of icons" is checked.

I have deleted the thumbnails cache in Disk Cleanup. I also attempted a system rollback to no avail. Apparently this problem occurred prior to the earliest system checkpoint on my machine, but I don't know what I did to make the thumbnails views disappear.

Thank you for your time, and I appreciate any suggestions or advice you may have.

Edited by q1000101, 17 November 2008 - 07:49 PM.

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Search for any 'thumbs.db' files and delete them. Windows will create new ones next time you select thumbnail view.The existing ones might be corrupted.
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Thanks for the reply. I tried that and it netted no results. I set it to show all hidden files, searched the entire computer for thumbs.db, deleted everything that showed up (a lot of old files from a few years ago, nothing with recent dates), emptied the recycle bin, rebooted, reset to hide hidden files...

... and the problem persists.

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