Windows XP SP2 Thumbnails Problem

[chandu]

Hi All,

I have a Windows XP Machine with SP2.

I am not able to view the thumbnails of videos properly.

- MPEG files are showing half-truncated Media Player Icon as the thumbnail.

- AVI files are showing the Video thumbnail but they are also truncated only top left corner of video image visible.

Anyone faced this problem erlier?

Can anyone suggest how to coreect it.

Thanks...

[Rhelic]

Google is a powerfull tool, maybe this will help:

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/videothumb.htm

[chandu]

Hi,

thanks for the info.

I have already tried the trick mentioned there.

I am able to display thumnails but not for all the Video files.

But my problem is thumbnails not displayed for cerian files. Eg: files with same extension also, some are displaying thumbnail some are not.

One more thing I observed is erlier it used to create thumbs.db in the folder now it is not creating.

[drkev]

i have the same problem with thumbnails but with picture thumbnails!

I have modified my windows kit and i didn't disabled thumb.db, or shell media handler, or windiows picture viewer and still it doesn't display a thumbnail in the side panel!

Pls can u help?

[snafumaster]

This may seem overly simplistic but you may want to try if you haven't;

in explorer

tools-folder options-view tab-reset all folders

The other thing that I have used in case where I was getting odd icon issues is purposely associating the file type with another program and setting the view to icon. This will force it to change. After you see the change, set it back to the association you wanted and the thumbnail view as well. Kind of jump starts it. Not guarenteed, but simple and worth a shot.