Solved Windows Photo Gallery No Thumbnails

[womblegod]

Hi. All thumbnails for pics on windows folders have recently disappeared. I have double checked all folder and performance settings and tried repairing Windows photo gallery, deleting thumbnails cache, restoring pc to previous state, changing file associations etc etc. No joy.

When I open the pictures folder, thumbnails appear briefly and then quickly revert to icons. "Always show icons, never thumbnails" is definitely unchecked.

I have successfully installed another picture browser which works fine when I work through it directly, unfortunately I still need thumbnails on the standard windows folders for selecting & uploading pics online, which is an important part of my business.

Anyone any suggestions? I have already tried all the suggestions for similar problems I have found on the forums but nothing so far has made any difference.

 

[richc46]

Welcome
Maybe, you should check to see if they are properly turned on
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/73715-thumbnails-windows-explorer.html

 

[womblegod]

Thanks. Had actually tried all these before apart from editing the registry directly. Have just been through the whole list again and rebooted. Unfortunately still no thumbnails.

 

[wither 3]

If you right click on the white space in the media area of WPG and select View, is Thumbnails selected?

 

[womblegod]

Hi. Thumbnails are selected, unfortunately they only show for a moment when the file is opened and then revert to icons.

 

[townsbg]

Try rebuilding the icon cache: How to Rebuild the Icon Cache in Windows Vista and Windows 7 - The Winhelponline Blog

NOTE: Use this at you own risk. I don't know if it'll mess anything up.

 

[womblegod]

Hi. Have tried rebuilding cache as per tutorial, but unfortunately no joy.

I've been trying to follow this tut as well http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/66978-system-files-sfc-command.html

This has revealed some corrupted files on vista which may be responsible. However I cannot seem to replace them using my vista disk as this is a recovery one not a retail version. Any suggestions how I should proceed further?

 

[womblegod]

Hi. Have now solved the problem. It was a corrupted dll file in vista. I managed to extract it from my recovery disk and replace it. Thumbnails back straight away!

 

[townsbg]

Please share which one it was.

 

[womblegod]

Hi

I think it was photometadatahandler.dll in system 32. I did replace a couple of other corrupted files as well, but I am sure this was the culprit.

James

 

[townsbg]

Thanks for sharing.