Solved No previews available anymore (pictures, contents of folders etc.)

Plainsong · Jan 13, 2010

Hi everyone,

Was hoping that someone could perhaps help me with an annoying litle problem that has happened pretty recently and as far as I know it happened without me doing anything...

For some reason Vista now does not show any previews of pictures; pictures saved on my desktop are now only shown as icons and not the picture, same goes for every folder in the computer and for video files as well.

If anyone has any idea on what the problem is and how to solve it it would be great!

Thanks,
Peter

Brink · Jan 13, 2010

Hello Peter, and welcome to Vista Forums.

Double check to make sure that you have thumbnails turned on for Windows Explorer.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/73715-thumbnails-windows-explorer.html

If it is, then double check in Default Programs to make sure that Windows Photo Gallery is set as the default program with all of it's associations set to it as well.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Plainsong · Jan 14, 2010

Hey there Shawn,

What do you know, this worked wonders!
The problem was with the thumbnails disabled in explorer for some reason so I followed the link you gave and did the easiest way and downloaded and implemented the .reg file and everything got back to normal.

I did try some of the other suggested routes which didn't work, but that might have been due to my incompetence...

Appreciate the fast help, thank you very much!
Peter

Brink · Jan 14, 2010

You're most welcome Peter. I'm happy to hear that you got it sorted out.

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