Windows 10: I cannot see thumbnails of my phone's files when connected to my laptop in Windows 11

I am in need for great assistance. I know its not exclusive to Windows 11 but I've been experiencing a problem with not seeing the thumbnail of a file from an external drive/USB/Phone for as long as I can remember. I've tried going to the file options and unchecking the "Always show icons, never thumbnail" and it still did not yield any results..I apologies if the solution is as obvious as day, but I am not as tech savy as one may believe. Any help is greatly appreciated.

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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 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 10 Picture Files not updating thumbnails

Hi,

I realize that the picture files are not updating thumbnails. I will try to help you with this issue.

Suggest you to perform “Disk Cleanup”, cleaning up the temporary internet files, thumbnail, cookies and temp files, so as to check the thumbnail view of the photo is updated by cleaning up your temporary data.

Further, if the issue persists then you can also follow these steps:

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  Right click in the Folder that contains the images.
  
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  Select View.
  
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  Note the current icon size, and change it to another size (ie: "Medium-Icons" to "Large-Icons", then back to "Medium-Icons").
  
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  This causes the icons to be resized and their cache updated.
  

Keep us informed to help you further.