Thumbnails instead of icons

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Robert Molina

I had rebuilt a system and now when looking in the My
Pictures folder, I don't see thumbnails. I selected the
thumbnail view and instead of previews, I get icons for
file type. I have tried everything to be able to change it
to preview thumbnails, but I only get the icons. Could
anyone assist me in changing this? I would like to be able
to see all the pictures in the folder without selecting
one for preview.

Thank you for any assistance that you can give me.

Robert
 
Registered dll file. Checked and still only had icons.
Unregistered dll then re-registered dll file. Did reboot
and still having same problem. Thanks for trying to help.
If any one else has ideas, I would greatly appreciate it.

Robert
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crap thumbvw.dll. Thanks Bruce
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In the registry. Start | Run | regedit | OK. Let's assume you are having trouble seeing .jpg files in thumbview. Go to the key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.jpg. Under that key you will see a key called ShellEx. Expand that. Under that key you shold have another key called:

{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}

As seen on the right when this key is selected you should see the value:

Name: (Default)
Type: REG_SZ
Data: {7376D660-C583-11d0-A3A5-00C04FD706EC}

Now if the CLSID for this data value is messed up you will not have thumbnails. So you need to check this key:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{7376D660-C583-11d0-A3A5-00C04FD706EC}

This should be:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{7376D660-C583-11d0-A3A5-00C04FD706EC}
Name: (Default)
Type: REG_SZ
Data: TridentImageExtractor

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{7376D660-C583-11d0-A3A5-00C04FD706EC}\InProcServer32
Name: (Default)
Type: REG_EXPAND_SZ
Data: %SystemRoot%\system32\browseui.dll

Name: ThreadingModel
Type: REG_SZ
Data: Both

A REG_EXPAND_SZ type can onle be made using regedt32 instead of regedit.

You might want to try registering browseui.dll by Start | Run | regsvr32 browseui.dll | OK. If you get an error file not found, that's the trouble. If you get any other error don't worry about it. That just means the dll is not self-registering. Definitiely NOT a Visual Basic dll.

After all this let me know if the behavior is still occurring. There other things to check such as the security on these keys using regedt32.
 
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