Windows not Creating Thuimbnails

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I have a folder containing about 85 short video clips. Windows is only
creating thumbnails for about 10 of the clips. What's wrong?
 
In Robert Lee typed on Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:18:01 -0700:
I have a folder containing about 85 short video clips. Windows is only
creating thumbnails for about 10 of the clips. What's wrong?
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What is the file extensions of the ones it isn't creating thumbnails
for?
 
The file extension is WMV. I don't think that Windows can create thumbnails
for real player or quick time videos.
 
Try re-registering the following:

Start > Run > Type "regsvr32 shimgvw.dll" (without the quotes)

If the above command doesn't fix it, then try this one next...

regsvr32 shmedia.dll

then, this one:

regsvr32 shdocvw.dll
 
In Robert Lee typed on Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:18:02 -0700:
The file extension is WMV. I don't think that Windows can create
thumbnails for real player or quick time videos.
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Actually with the right software you can. As I do with the K-Lite Mega
Codec Pack. <grin>
 
Thanks. It worked. I'm not sure which one worked: I tried all three, and
none seemed to work at first. But after a while, the icons reappeared.

Before the icons reappeared, I erased a video that was apparently corrupted.
I don't know if that was the cause of, or contributed to, the problem. I
also don't know whether merely erasing that video would have caused the icons
to reappear. But I'm glad to have the icons reappear.
 
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