.avi Thumbnail Preview

[Jody]

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

 

[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