Thumbnails don't show up for SOME folders in Windows Explorer

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ImageAnalyst

I have a folder that contains images plus a ton of other sub-folders
which also contain images. Most of the sub-folders have a thumbnail
that is a folder with up to 4 mini-images on the folder, but some of
the folders are just plain yellow folder icons. How can I force
Windows Explorer to build thumbnails for ALL the folders? I can go
into a folder that is missing the proper mini-image thumbnail and see
the thumbnails but when I go back out a level, those thumbnails aren't
transferred onto the icon of the folder. A sub-folder will have a
Thumbs.db but the level up won't have a Thumbs.db even though I am
looking at it in Thumbnail mode. Even when I right click the folder
and say "Refresh Thumbnail" in Windows Explorer, it doesn't build the
thumbnail. Consequently in Windows Explorer there are several image
folders that don't show the contents of them as mini-images right on
the folder thumbnail. Some do and some don't and I can't figure out
any reason why they're different. Any fix for this?
 
I

ImageAnalyst

This may help. Your current default is 400.
Folders View (increase from 400 to 8000, line #2, left column)http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

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Thanks for the suggestion but I tried it and it didn't work. And
according to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/813711 this was fixed in
Service Pack 2 anyway. I even exited and restarted Window Explorer
several times. So I still have some folders with plain folder icons
instead of the folders with mini-images icon. Sometimes if I go into
a folder and view it in thumbnails, it never creates a Thumbs.db,
especially if all that folder contains is two sub folders - no regular
files or anything.
Thanks,
ImageAnalyst
 

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