Windows 7 refresh thumbnails folder

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Sign in to vote. Tuesday, December 1, AM. Hi mike-holden, You can also try the following steps: 1. Regards, Linda. Wednesday, December 2, AM. I was going to suggest trying to find the thumbs. However, you can delete all the stored thumbnails through the Disk Cleanup function see the link below for details. Hello Linda Yan, 1. Ran Disk Cleanup with Thumbnails checked. When I looked in a pictures folder, the old thumbnails were still there.

Tell me, why did MS remove the "Refresh thumbnails" in Windows 7? Friday, December 4, PM. Dear Noel Carboni, Thanks for your suggestion, but I ran Disk Cleanup with Thumbnails checked. I do not want to go into the registry to refresh thumbnails. There must be a better way.. Edited by mike-holden Friday, October 18, PM. Not much use if you want to find a picture quickly.

Unchecking "Always show icons, never thumbnails" again displayed the old icons. Since you have the "Always show icons, never thumbnails" option checked, and yet you're still seeing thumbnails, I wonder whether it's possible you've installed some Explorer extension that's showing the thumbnails. Have you installed any software originally made for an older version of Windows to do something like this? Any special codec for a digital camera, for example? Saturday, December 5, AM. There were 7 non-Microsoft extensions listed.

I don't recognize the last one. Tried to disable the extension. When I clicked on Disable, the Disabled column entry still showed 'No'. Monday, December 7, AM. I got a message 'This action cannot be completed because the file is open in Windows Explorer'. I deleted all the thumbs. Monday, December 7, PM. Hi Mike, Please create a new user account and see if the issue occurs.

Also, please re-run Disk Cleanup tool by the steps below to check the result: 1. Tuesday, December 8, AM. Perhaps it was a Windows 7 patch. Whatever, it works. I have the same problem in Windows 7 Pictures Library. I have done all the previous steps incl disk cleanup to remove thumbnails and to Always show icons etc but the images remain unchanged until one leaves the program and reenters it. Dear Linda Yan, I did the Disk cleanup first. It made no difference. I created a new account.

I changed a picture using Paint, because my usual program, Photoshop Elements, was not available in this account. When I saved the picture the thumbnail changed.

I closed and opened the folder and the thumbnail remained changed. I went back to my old account and changed another picture using Paint. The thumnail changed - and stayed changed.

I tried the same procedure using Photoshop Elements. The thumbnails did NOT change. So the problem appears to occur with pictures changed by Photoshop Elements but not by Paint. Monday, December 14, AM. However, I go back to my original question. What happened to the 'Refresh thumbnails' option which was so useful in Windows XP? Monday, December 14, PM. Tuesday, December 15, AM. Tuesday, December 15, PM.

Thumbnails regenerate properly. Monday, April 5, PM. Sunday, July 11, PM. I tried all the suggestions here and in every other forum on the subject I could find. None of them worked! Thursday, July 22, PM.

Friday, July 30, AM. Good luck! Tuesday, September 7, PM. Friday, November 19, AM. This happens to me as well, but only so far with.

Rebooting, or deleting the icon cache, are not helpful workarounds, IMO. Wednesday, December 1, PM. Tuesday, December 21, AM. That does not, however, work for me. Tuesday, December 21, PM. Sunday, January 16, AM. Saturday, February 12, AM. I'm with you on this one, mike-holden! How do we communicate such needs to Microsoft??? I have the same problem with ICOs. The workaround I use is to switch to "Content" view. Tuesday, March 1, PM. Content view fixes part of it -- the refresh issue.

I want the other views to work the way they used to! I downloaded that program, but can't figure out how to do what you are saying. When I open the program the command prompt file opens and shuts before I can do anything. I'm very confused. Please explain more. Thank you. Saturday, April 16, AM. For a single picture file, I did this: Do a copy of the original image file. Delete the original file.

The new copy has the correct thumbnail image. Thursday, May 5, AM. Always show icons, never thumbnails Please un-mark it as the answer. The answers that did work for me were: 1. Copy the files. Delete the original files. Move the copied files back.

Monday, May 23, PM. While this topic was obviously started a looooong time ago, maybe there are still users out there like me who are just now getting to the point of being fed-up enough with this problem to seek a solution.

Depending on your situation importing new files or dealing with existing files , there are multiple strategies for correcting the problem. Since I'm most often affected when importing tens or hundreds of new digital images from a camera that recycles its file names, I'll discuss the method for dealing with that situation: First, transfer the files to your computer in a way that keeps them all in the same folder, separate from previously downloaded material on your computer I understand some 3rd Party software controls this process.

Since I don't use such software, I can't speak to how it will affect what we're talking about here, but the important thing to remember is to get all the new images in a folder by themselves.

Proposed as answer by joepitt91 Tuesday, July 26, AM. Thanks but no. I have already checked all that and it is set to what you say. I have tried making the amount of video files less in each folder but still the same. I have tried copying them to the desktop but still the same. I have viewed other video files from my usb hard drive and they are o. The files from the camera when viewed have AVI written on them and look like a piece of film strip. I have had no problem when I was using Vista.

Only since trying Windows 7 and windows 7rc. If I change the camera over to take stills instead of videos then the stills are shown from the SD card as thumbnails.

Very puzzleing indeed. Don't know whether you can come up with another possible solution but I hope you can. Friday, May 22, PM.

Are you using Windows 7 RC bit or bit? It seems other people have this problem with the bit version of Windows Explorer and some can solve it by using the bit version. Have you downloaded any additional codec packs on your computer?

Do you know what codec the recorded AVIs are? Tuesday, June 23, PM. Hi, Having similar if not same problem. The dual boot is running Build , while the other was running but have since rebuilt with to see if that helped resolve the problem. In the case of MP4 files - all display fine on the bit version, but only a few of them display thumbnails on the 64 bit system. No MKV file displays thumbnails on any of the systems. The one 'clean' i. Any suggestions?

Thursday, July 2, PM. I have a similar problem. The thumbnails appear longer I do not know specifically when. I suspect that after the uninstall of Nero 7. When I put the Media Player Classic as default then the preview pane will no longer work. Restoring the Windows Media Player as the default preview pane back to work, but not the thumbnails. Tuesday, August 11, AM. Forgot to say something that might be important. The thumbnails work in safe mode. I have the same problem!

I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate x It's an upgraded Windows Vista Ultimate x I haven't installed any codec after the upgrade. The mp4 files works fine in WMP12 and are also listed under the Video library except no thumbnails there either. Sunday, August 16, PM. I have the same problem and I am quite sure it is not due to bad mp4 files. At a certain point Windows 7 has become unable to produce new thumbnails for mp4 files; if I take an mp4 produced a couple of months ago when thumbnail generation used to work and copy it into a different folder the new file will not have a thumbnail.

If I doucleclick the file, it opens correctly in WMP12 so the file type association is still there In my quest to find a decent media player WMP12 doesn't pass the test of decency I have installed the dreadful iTunes software.

Could that be the cause of the problem? That's the only thing I can think of. Monday, September 7, AM. In my experience this happens with alot of mp4 files downloaded from Youtube. WMP12 plays the files fine thou and I'm positive it's using Microsofts included codecs. My mp4 files are produced with Nero and as I said the same file that currently has a thumbnail will not have a thumbnail if I make a copy of it, so it can't be a problem with the file.

Hi guys, I found a solution for this issue on windows 7 64 bits! I'm on the I couldn't get thumbnail preview for my. MOV or. Sometime I could get one or 2 thumb out of 30 in the folder. MOV, refresh the files several times to be sure, it should be working. Sunday, December 27, PM. Hello there. The same problem with me.

Try the following, it worked and showed all the thumbnails. First open Windows Media Player, then click on files-open. Locate the movies or videos that you want to open. From there, a thumbnails will create. When you open window explorer, all the thumbnails were shown. I hope this help please excuse my poor English!! Thursday, December 31, AM. Thanks for your help and what you said does work but only with individual videos.

I need to view a whole page of videos at once as thumbnails so I can pick out the ones I think I will need to look at. When I use Vista and look at a page of videos the page populates into thumbnails so I can see straight away which videos have changed to look at. Going through each one individually with media player would take an age as there are hundreds at once to look at.

Monday, January 4, PM. Tuesday, January 19, PM. Thanks but I have GB of hard drive space available. Proposed as answer by sorshadragon Tuesday, February 2, AM. Tuesday, February 2, AM. Will this work with Adobe thumbnails? We're using Windows 7 64Bit and didn't have this problem before :- I'll see if I can find the Reg' keys and let you know if I get it working!

Wednesday, March 31, AM. This actually worked for me. You have kept me sane! Friday, April 23, AM. Problem Solved! Try that Hope that does it for all that have the same problem!

Proposed as answer by cyberjack88 Monday, July 12, PM. Tuesday, May 25, PM. I had this problem with one particular. I changed the extension to. Changed it back to. Thursday, May 27, AM. This solution works Sunday, May 30, AM. I have also the same problem with Windows 7. I tried a lot using different codec pack, media player, registry tweaks, but every time I was Finally I decided and made back up and installed windows xp.

Only User Interface is impressive rather than nothing in windows 7. I hate windows 7. File association like 3gp, 3g2, mp4 etc is given but can't play. We need codec pack to run.

So, I degrade to windows xp. I love windows xp. Not any problem with windows xp. Saturday, June 12, AM. That's IT!!! As soon as I pressed the Reset Folders button everything became good!! No need to mess around in your registry. Monday, July 12, PM. Wednesday, July 14, PM. Same problem. All the thumbnail previews worked until like yesterday. I have tried just about everything. Still getting just icons. So frustrating. Monday, August 2, AM. MacX YouTube Downloader.

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