Newbie Question -- Lost Photo Image View

mozark

New Member
Hello, all. Happy Holidays. New to this forum and to Vista Ultimate 64.

After believing all the negativity from the past 2 years, I finally bought myself a wonderful new rig with Vista Ultimate 64 installed. I've only been tinkering with it for about one week, but the Vista experience really is a beautiful and intelligent one.

My question: last night I suddenly lost image view of all my photographs. The photos are there, they come up fine when clicked and can be edited within Window Picture Viewer etc. But when I go to my Pictures folder, I cannot see the photos themselves no matter what view I try. What I get instead is some default "placeholder" picture in each one's place.

What did I do and how can I reverse it?

Thanks very much in advance. :geek:
 

My Computer

Hi mozark and welcome,

Have you used a registry cleaner lately? They might have been wiped with that. If so, you could try the recover option of the cleaner to see if it restores it. Or changed settings in the folder options in the control panel? You can read these tutorials, maybe one of them will apply.
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/117229-icon-cache-rebuild.html?ltr=I
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/73720-thumbnail-cache.html
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/90705-personal-user-shell-folders.html
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/116098-preview-pane-vista-windows-explorer.html?ltr=P
And you can check these
View attachment 8725
View attachment 8724
See if visual is all checked and you can restore default settings for folder option view tab.
You can try a system restore if none of this works.
 
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My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Airbot 2.0
    CPU
    Core i7 920 (D0) @ 4Ghz, 26c idle- 65c full load on air
    Motherboard
    Asus P6X58D Premium -Sata 6Gb/s - USB 3.0
    Memory
    12GB Corsair Dominator -CMD12GX3M6A1600C8
    Graphics Card(s)
    EVGA Nvidia GTX 480 -Fermi
    Sound Card
    ASUS Xonar D2X
    Monitor(s) Displays
    LG 24" Flatron W2453V-PF Full HD 1080p 2ms response time
    Screen Resolution
    1920x1080@60hz
    Hard Drives
    1 OCZ Vertex2 180GB SSD
    1 TB Samsung Spinpoint F1 7200RPM 32MB cache
    2 500GB WD Caviar Blacks 7200RPM 32MB cache (WD5001AALS)

    Pioneer DVD Burner DVR-S18M
    PSU
    Corsair HX1000W
    Case
    Cooler Master HAF 932
    Cooling
    Case Fans -3 230mm, 1 140mm/CPU - Tuniq Tower 120 Extreme
    Keyboard
    Logitech Wireless MK700
    Mouse
    Logitech Wireless MK700
    Internet Speed
    100 MBPS DL 30.17Mbps UL 0.98Mbps
    Other Info
    Windows 7
    Processor-7.7 RAM- 7.9 Graphics-7.9 Gaming Graphics- 7.9 HDD- 7.8

    W.E.I final score= 7.7

    Windows Vista=5.9
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