Thumbnail View Distorted

[Chris]

I reformatted my primary HDD and reinstalled a fresh copy
of XP. Afterwards, when I look at my pictures folder on
my Secondary HDD in thumbnail view, the preview images
are rendered really wierd. They look almost like they are
in 16-bit color. If I go into the properties of the
folder and click through all the options, after clicking
OK, the folder looks correct. What's more, the same thing
is happening with the images in this folder and all of
its subfolders. If I go through their properties one by
one, they will randomly display correctly. Sometimes the
same steps for one image, won't work for another. I
posted two screenshots here:

http://chrisacker.com/images/screenshot1.JPG
http://chrisacker.com/images/screenshot2.JPG

Any help would be great. I really don't want to go into
the properties of the thousands of images I have.

One last note, sometimes when I would view my images from
other computers on the network, this would happen (this
being before the reinstall) It wasn't until now that it
happened on my machine. I have an ATI Radeon VE if anyone
is wondering as well.

Thanks
Chris
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[Chris]

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[Guest]

This seems to be a problem with no answer, but I think I
found one. Install PowerToys Tweack UI for windows xp
(google search for it) After installed, run tweak ui and
click "explorer" go to "thumbnails" and change the
default from 96 to something else (95 worked for me).
Presto, it fixed it!

 

[Alex Nichol]

I reformatted my primary HDD and reinstalled a fresh copy
of XP. Afterwards, when I look at my pictures folder on
my Secondary HDD in thumbnail view, the preview images
are rendered really wierd. They look almost like they are
in 16-bit color. If I go into the properties of the
folder and click through all the options, after clicking
OK, the folder looks correct.

Use TweakUI - one of the XP Powertoys from (if you have installed XP
SP1)
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp

If you have not installed SP!, the earlier version can be found at
http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Install/2/WXP/EN-US/TweakUiPowertoySetup.exe

Once installed you will find it in Start - All Programs - Powertoys for
Windows XP

On its Explorer - Thumbnails page, adjust the Quality slider down -
things go wrong if it is higher than around two thirds up