Problem with Thumbnail View

[Tod]

In XP Professional, in the Windows Explorer, I have a folder with video
files in it. It used to show a screen shot from the video as the
thumbnail. Now it just shows the Windows Media Player Icon. What did I
do?

 

[Joe]

In XP Professional, in the Windows Explorer, I have a folder with video
files in it. It used to show a screen shot from the video as the
thumbnail. Now it just shows the Windows Media Player Icon. What did I
do?

You deleted the "thumbs.db" files.

 

[WTC]

In XP Professional, in the Windows Explorer, I have a folder with video
files in it. It used to show a screen shot from the video as the
thumbnail. Now it just shows the Windows Media Player Icon. What did I
do?

Thumbnail image not generated for Video files in Windows XP?
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/videothumb.htm

[Courtesy of Ramesh Srinivasan, MVP]