Windows 10: Explorer Seeking Forever / Thumbnails not showing

Hi there,

At first i had a thumbnail issue where explorer would keep running the green bar and it would be slow, and wouldn't be able to pull up thumbnails. So i did sfc scan, cleared thumbnail cache, did DISM, checked for malware. All no problem. After clearing the thumbnail cache, the thumbnails show up as a white page now, and it loads like the picture below forever. Its quite odd though, because shortly after i noticed i had a windows update, so i did the update, and everything was back to normal. Then the next day, i have the same issue... (btw, im on an m.2 nvme ssd). Also if i go to start menu and go into Settings, i get the blue gear icon for settings and it doesnt open..

I tried setting up a seperate user profile, and it seems to work just fine under that profile.

PC:
Gigabyte Aorus Elite X570
Gigabyte 2070 Super
32 GB Trident Z Neo 3600mhz
1tb Corsair MP600

Windows 10 Version: 1909

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File Explorer not showing thumbnails

Brink,

Many thanks for you reply. I have done all the steps you suggested, but no change,

When I open a folder containing photos, some open correctly but the vast majority open with thumbnails, but they very quickly get overwritten and you can not longer see the thumbnails.

Are there any more suggestions?

 

Windows Explorer crashes and thumbnails problem

Hi, I hope you can help me.
Windows Explorer is no longer showing thumbnails on files played by Windows Media Player. I've run cmd and regsvr32 shmedia.dll and regsvr32 shimgvw.dll. That seemed to solve the problem...but it created a different one. Now when I try to open a folder on an external hard drive it crashes. I read in an old 2008 post it was an avi file causing the problem and suggested the run cmd regsvr32 /u shmedia.dll. That solved the opening problem but recreated the thumbnail problem. Any help to achieve both functions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

 

File Explorer - Some PDF's show thumbnail image, some don’t

In Windows 10 File Explorer, I see thumbnails for a few of my pdf files but still see the generic Adobe pdf icon for most of them.

• In Windows 10 folder options, the checkbox for “Always show icons, never thumbnails” is unchecked.
• On the Adobe Reader preferences general tab, “Enable PDF thumbnails previews in Windows Explorer” is checked.
• Adobe Acrobat is set as my default PDF viewer.
• I have used Disk Cleanup to delete all my thumbnails to clear and rebuild the cache, yet the problem persists.

Any suggestions on how I can see all the pdf icons as thumbnails?
Windows 10 Pro, Version 1903, Build 18362.657
Adobe Acrobat Reader DC (20.006.20034)

I asked over in the Adobe Acrobat Reader forum a few days ago but have received no replies.





Ron