Hello everyone, I've just signed up here because I'm looking for some
serious help. I hope someone here can solve this problem that is
literally driving me insane.
Okay, here is the situation: I have Windows Vista Home Premium. I've
had it on my computer ever since Vista first came out (it was a new
computer, Vista already installed on it). Just a few days ago,
thumbnails suddenly stopped working. All of my important pictures just
turned back into the default icons (leading to a sea of those stupid
blue landscape icons, ARGRH!)
If I press refresh, only some pictures will show a thumbnail for a
second and then just disappear.
Even though I can still just click on them to actually view the image,
it's still a problem because I got a ton of photos that are all number
cataloged and I can't tell which one is which without the thumbnail
preview.
I've searched near and far on the internet for a solution and I've
tried several things that have alleviated this problem with other
people.
1. Delete the thumbnail cache via Disk Cleanup (did this like three
times)
2. Making sure the options "show icons, not thumbnails" is unchecked
and "show thumbnails, not icons" is checked.
3. Chose the option "adjust for best appearance" in the system thing.
4. Pick the option to rebuild all the folders and their settings.
5. Edit the registry to delete some keys so that the system would be
forced to rebuild the folders and their settings.
NONE of these things have worked. This is driving me insane, guys.
Please, for the love of God, help me!
My only clue is that it possibly has nothing to do with a corrupted
setting but rather the thumbnails just aren't even being created. I say
this because the three times I went to go do the Disk Cleanup, the
Thumbnails option was under a single MB. That can't be right. It could
only mean that the system isn't even attempting to create these
thumbnails for the icons.
Am I right in my assumption? If so, why? Why would it not even try?
Thank you so much for any help you give me!
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