Help,

When I view video files with windows explorer I no longer see a thumbnail
preview, just an icon. I have the correct box unchecked in "folder and
serach options" with regard to thumbnails. My fear is that I may have
inadvertantly changed a registry setting a while back when I was working on
another issue or trying to increase speed. (I am by no means an expert at
regedit.) I do see thumbnail previews for other file types. I believe the
problem is isolated to just .avi and possibly .mpg files. An help would be
greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Jody

My folder is customized to display "pictures and videos" I do have codec
packages installed, however I do not think I made any recent changes or
installed any different ones. I will try as you suggested however and
uninstall all of them and then install 1 single package.

I still believe my problem lies in the registry. I do see thumbnails for
existing avi files that were present in the folder for a lengthy time.
However, all new files that I download do not generate thumbnails. I think
this may be linked to an indexing problem. Even though the folder location
is an indexed location and the file type is checked, if i search for the
title of a know avi file from the start menu I get no results. I have
already tried rebuilding the index.

Jody

"dzomlija" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
> There could be a number of causes that will result in this problem.
>
> The simplest is this: Is the folder customized to display "Pictures and
> Videos"? Do this by right-clicking on the folder, then selct
> _Customize_. Under _Use_this_folder_type_as_a_template_, select
> -Pictures and Videos-.
>
> Another possible cause are codecs. Have you recently
> installed/uninstalled codec packages? I've had the experience also that
> even if the file can play in Media Player, I didn't always get
> thumbnails. I rooted my experience down to codecs, and when I removed
> all codec packages, and re-installed a single package (for x64), my
> thumbnails returned.
>
> I currently use this codec package: 'Vista Codec Package Homepage'
> (http://www.jtow.net/users/triess/)
>
>
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