When I click "thumbnails" in the View options, no pictures appear. This
just started. Clicking "Filmstip" in view draws a blank too, no preview,
no thumbnails.

Is it time for a reload of XP?

This just happened to me too.

I still get thumbnail pictures for most, if not all movie files, pdf files,
and html files.

But my jpg, tif, gif, and others only show a large icon of the program that
they will open with by default.

All worked one day and then the next NoShow :-(

Any help here would be appreciated!

Thanks!

"swamp daddy" wrote:

Generic icon is displayed for a picture file when in Thumbnail view
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/imagethumb.htm


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"AM" <AM@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:732FB6B8-74BD-42C0-BC0E-D26AB1020E0E@microsoft.com...
| This just happened to me too.
|
| I still get thumbnail pictures for most, if not all movie files, pdf files,
| and html files.
|
| But my jpg, tif, gif, and others only show a large icon of the program that
| they will open with by default.
|
| All worked one day and then the next NoShow :-(
|
| Any help here would be appreciated!
|
| Thanks!
|
| "swamp daddy" wrote:
|
| > When I click "thumbnails" in the View options, no pictures appear. This
| > just started. Clicking "Filmstip" in view draws a blank too, no preview,
| > no thumbnails.
| >
| > Is it time for a reload of XP?

Thanks for the link.

I also found this on another website:

regsvr32 %systemroot%\system32\shimgvw.dll,

This did work and now everything is back to normal!!

Thanks Again!!

PS I hope swamp daddy reads this!

"TaurArian" wrote: