Windows 10: Downloaded pictures have green thumbnails

Almost every picture I've downloaded has green thumbnails. I've tried disabling the automatic blocking of downloaded files, but that didn't work. I have to open it in Photo Viewer and Save a Copy to get the thumbnail to show up. Windows 10 is freaking annoying sometimes. How do I fix this?

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check marks or double << appear on pictures in file explorer

A very distracting add on is messing up my picture browsing. When I open a folder containing several pictures all of them have either a large check mark in the bottom left of the thumbnail or a double <<, Thes marks are green and cover a third of the
thumbnail. How do I get rid of them? It is very annoying.

 

Cant download pictures from email to Windows Phone

You can save attached pictures.

Select download pictures, then tap and hold the picture thumbnail and select 'save' or tap 'save all photos'.

 

First thing I'd try is to delete the thumbnail cache via Disk Cleanup, restart and let Windows rebuild it.

 

I've done that several times. No dice.

 

What format are the pictures e.g. .jpg?

 

Is it possible that you can take a picture of the green thumbnails and post it here real quick? I wanna see if I can find something that could help with that.

 

This is just from one site. I've got images from all over the web that have this issue. Some DO have a thumbnail, while others don't. Videos and other media formats display just fine. It's mainly JPG and PNG images that have this issue. I don't know about any other picture formats as those aren't used often.

 

Green Thumbnails Picture Previews Solved - Windows 10 Forums States some other app may be interfering with the creation of your thumbnails. See if you can disable any other app that has to do with images that's running on your computer.
I'll look around more.

 

You might need to do the repair install mentioned in the above post. Check which program you have set under file associations to open those jpg, gif, and png files and ensure the program is set to something conventional like Photos.

 

It's set to Photos and never been set to anything else.

 

WOW! That's.... different *Eek

Never seen that one before, and I have hundreds of images all over the place being a photographer. Anyway from what I've seen here thus far, I agree giving Repair Install a try first - Repair Install Windows 10 with an In-place Upgrade Windows 10 Installation Upgrade Tutorials .

A repair install is easier since it doesn't require you to reinstall all your programs and files. That said, as usual, it's always recommend to do a backup before any type of major OS maintenance.

Let us know.

 

Repair install took a while, and was not worth the time and effort. The problem still exists.

 

I use IrfanView to view images (and other files) on my Windows installs (XP, W7 & W10).
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I have seen green thumbnails, but (on my PC) it's only ever happened with files that have been corrupted.

 

That's the odd thing, when they're corrupted, the picture only partially loads, if at all. These load fine. And I can "edit" them and save via Photo Editor (I found out I can open the crop menu, then save without actually cropping) and it restores the thumbnail.

You know, I wonder if it's my browser doing it? I'm gonna test that and report back.