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I'd like to turn off Windows 7 (video) thumbnails displayed in Explorer. I found this solution for Windows XP but it doesn't work for Windows 7 ("The module shmedia.dll failed to load").

Disable thumbnails in Windows XP?

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There are a couple of potential options.

  1. Open Explorer/Tools/Folder options/View and check the first box 'Always show icons, never thumbnails'

  2. You can customise the way way each folder controls the display of the objects within. Right click on a folder and choose 'Properties' then 'Customise' In the drop down list for 'Optimise this folder for' select 'General items'

Changing the 'View' type will work too.

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Thanks, the second option worked great (first option would remove other functionality I want to keep, image thumbnails). – Sam Jun 16 '10 at 14:33
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