Newbie Question -- Lost Photo Image View

[mozark]

Hello, all. Happy Holidays. New to this forum and to Vista Ultimate 64.

After believing all the negativity from the past 2 years, I finally bought myself a wonderful new rig with Vista Ultimate 64 installed. I've only been tinkering with it for about one week, but the Vista experience really is a beautiful and intelligent one.

My question: last night I suddenly lost image view of all my photographs. The photos are there, they come up fine when clicked and can be edited within Window Picture Viewer etc. But when I go to my Pictures folder, I cannot see the photos themselves no matter what view I try. What I get instead is some default "placeholder" picture in each one's place.

What did I do and how can I reverse it?

Thanks very much in advance.

 

[Airbot]

Hi mozark and welcome,

Have you used a registry cleaner lately? They might have been wiped with that. If so, you could try the recover option of the cleaner to see if it restores it. Or changed settings in the folder options in the control panel? You can read these tutorials, maybe one of them will apply.
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/117229-icon-cache-rebuild.html?ltr=I
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/73720-thumbnail-cache.html
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/90705-personal-user-shell-folders.html
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/116098-preview-pane-vista-windows-explorer.html?ltr=P
And you can check these
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See if visual is all checked and you can restore default settings for folder option view tab.
You can try a system restore if none of this works.