Vista Thumbnail gone

Hey guys, just installed latest update to Vista Ultimate 64 and ever since i no longer have my AVI media thumbnails (little scrren shoot on thumbnail). I have tried to uninstall the updates and making sure that the Always show icon, never thumbnails option in Tools/Folder options/ View/ is not selected but still no luck.

Any help would be great

you need codecs installed for vista to be able to display the thumbnails...

Download Vista Codec Package 4.4.4 - Vista Codec Package - With this package installed, you shouldn't need to install any other codec or filter - Softpedia

They are for the standard 32bit player in vista. The 64bit version is not used by default and extra codecs are needed.

Didn't work, It installed ok but i still don't have my AVI preview pic displayed. I have jpg, mpeg etc. but ever since i installed the latest Vista 64 updates, i don't have the preview pic's for AVI's.

hmm give these 3 options a try, click "views" found at the top of your movies folder and select either "tiles" or "Large icons" then wait for vista to scan each file for a preview, if this still doesnt work after 10-20mins your .avi file type might have been changed from windows media player, to change it back goto Control Panel>Default Programs>Set Program Defaults>Windows Media Player.

Either of these methods should work, if they do not install these codecs made specifically for "Vista X64 ONLY"...They allow you to switch to the x64 version of windows media player hidden away by default and these codecs work with explorer.

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Blueflamman said:

Didn't work, It installed ok but i still don't have my AVI preview pic displayed. I have jpg, mpeg etc. but ever since i installed the latest Vista 64 updates, i don't have the preview pic's for AVI's.

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Thanks, that worked. AVI preview pic's can now been viewed

Glad to hear it worked out, Was it just the codecs for explorer you needed?

Yeah, it was thanks alot for that!