I am having an annoying problem with image thumbnails in Windows Explorer: they are no longer visible! On occasion, when I switch to a new directory, I'll see some thumbnail images appear/flash briefly before being replaced with the stock icon for jpg/gifs...so it is as if there are some thumbnails, but for some reason, they are being suppressed. Please note that I have no idea if thumbnail generation is actually occurring: I don't see the little green progress bar in the Explorer location-name window when I change directories.
I have seen similar questions on this site and others, and I have attempted various solutions, all to no avail:
- Under Folder Options, The Always Show Icon, Never Thumbnail option is unchecked.
- Under Performance options (Adjust Visual Effects), Show Thumbnails Instead of Icons is checked.
- I have deleted the thumbnail database files via Disk Cleanup as well as manually (using Task Manager to kill Explorer first, then deleting the thumbnail databases before re-enabling Explorer).
- I ran a Microsoft "FixIt" tool which reset the icon databases as well.
- I checked the icon entries for the registered filetypes (jpegfile, etc.) in the registry for any abnormalities...everything seems fine, based on the various tips I used to check this.
Does anyone have any other solutions? This is driving me NUTS! Thanks!