Windows 10: *.ani and *.cur Icons Not Showing Thumbnail

I've been doing a bit of mucking about with cursor icons lately, and downloaded a few I thought were interesting. Using Explorer, I went to c:\Windows\Cursors, and I could see all the thumbnails, great.

I wanted to tweak some of them, so I downloaded a cursor editor (RWCursorEditor) and used it. Then I thought I'd associate both .ani and .cur to the program, so I could just double-click in Explorer to open an .ani or.cur in the editor. Great.

Problem is - as soon as I made that association, I lost all the thumbnails. Now Explorer just shows the RWCursorEditor icon for all of my .ani and .cur files.

I reset all of my file associations, think that might fix it - it didn't. All of my .ani and .cur files started having no icons associated at all - so they just showed the default icon that looks like a page of paper.

I've also fiddled with the settings in the View tab of the Folder Options dialog. I've tried every combination of the 'Always show icons, never thumbnails' and 'Display file icon on thumbnails' settings that there is - none of them made the slightest difference.

Oh, if it makes any difference:-
- Windows 10 Enterpise

- Version 1709

- OS Build 16299.248

- 8.00 GB- 64-bit

Thanks in advance for any suggestions

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preview pane and thumbnails

In File Explorer, when I search through folders, some jpg files show as thumbnails, some as icons. Some show up in preview pane, some don't. there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason or consistency to it. Please don't simply instruct me to select thumbnails
or preview pane in the view tab, because I've already explained that there's no consistency to it.

 

Icons and thumbnails not showing

Hi,

It is possible that icons and thumbnails are not showing due to corruptions. To assist you better, we'd like to ask if what troubleshooting steps have you done so far.

Meanwhile, we suggest that you follow the steps provided in this article by clicking on this

link. It will let you scan for corruptions and will provide you a remedy.

Let us know if you need further assistance.

 

Done the same with associating .ani & .cur files with my creation software.
Brink's fixes solved it by removing the association.
Restore Default File Type Associations in Windows 10 Windows 10 Tutorials

 

I cannot thank you enough for this fix. Worked like a charm exactly as that link said it would.

I've been agonising over this for days - you're a lifesaver! Thank you!

 

Glad to help. @Brink has helped me out numerous times on this forum. *Smile