Flash, your assumptions are correct. 1MB in thumbnail cache is too low if you
have a large number of photos and albums on your computer.
I have 135MB on my thumbnail cache in the Disk Cleanup menu with hundreds of
photos and albums on my C: drive. My thumbnail cache also indicates 135 MB.
My
thumbnail cache is located at:
C:\users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer
From your description, it seems that you’ve done all the right things trying
to rebuild it, yet Vista won’t do it. Unless there’s a hot fix out there,
assume that the OS is damaged and try to restore the OS to a previously
working condition.
Best of luck…
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oscar
....Right click is your best friend...
"Flash 103" wrote:
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> 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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> Flash 103
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