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
 
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Robert Molina

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
-----Original Message-----
crap thumbvw.dll. Thanks Bruce
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George Hester

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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