Windows 10: Image Thumbnails and Preview no longer loading in File Explorer

As of earlier today I noticed that newly downloaded images are not displaying their thumbnails. Went online to look for solutions, looks like a lot of users are having this problem but very few have had offered solutions that aren't completely generic or pulled from a Third Party website. Here's what I have tried:


- Selected the right options to show thumbnails under File options and under "Performance" under Advanced System Options. Did not work.

- Rebuilt thumbnail and icon cache, both through DiskCleanup and CMD. Did not work.

- Updated Windows. Did not work.

- Attempted a restore from a Restore Point which failed, did not try again

- Installed Third-party Codec that was suggested by another thread, as that user explained, the thumbnail service is attempting to build a thumbnail and display it but is lacking the codec to do so. Did not work.

- Disabled Download Files on Demand or something for Onedrive, as suggested by another thread. Did not work.



Interesting things to note:


- Since I deleted the old thumbnail cache, images previously saved or downloaded no longer have their thumbnails.


- If I select the default Microsoft Photos app as the default image viewer, when opening a folder all of my images flash their thumbnail briefly before going back to a blank icon. It looks like thumbnails are somehow being generated, but not displayed.


- All video files, and icon files load their thumbnails perfectly. It looks like only image files are affected: jpg, jpeg, png, etc.

- MOST of my images are still blank icons, no thumbnails. I say most because inexplicably a small number of them managed to retain their thumbnails. No clue as to why this is.



Looking up similar issues on Google and Microsoft Answers reveals a lot of people have had similar problems to mine, but no viable solution. If anyone has somehow gotten a fix or something to work. Please let me know.

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"This file can't be previewed" problem in explorer

Hi Deborah,

For us to provide an accurate resolution, kindly elaborate the issue by answering the questions listed below:

• Since when have you been experiencing this issue?
• Were there any changes on your PC before this happened like software or updates installed?

For initial troubleshooting, we suggest that you follow the steps listed below:

• Open File Explorer.
• Access this link
  
  C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer
• Delete all the files.
• After deleting the files kindly try and see if there's a thumbnail preview of your files.

We're looking forward to your response.

 

No thumbnail preview in File Explorer.

Since I have upgraded to Windows 10, from Windows 8, I have lost the ability to preview the thumbnails when looking up files in File Explorer. I can see photo thumbnails just fine. However, I no longer can see the SoildWorks thumbnails I was able to see
using Windows 8. I have made sure that the items in the Folder Options/View are properly checked, or in this case, unchecked. I have also setup the options in SoildWorks to "View thumbnails in Windows File Explorer" is checked.

Being unable to see the parts is slowing my file retrieval time considerably. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Preview and thumbnails of pdf files are not available

Hi Michelle, my name is Martin and I'm an Independent Advisor. I'll try to help you here.

Preview and Thumbnails of PDF files can be disabled on your PC . . .

I suggest that you follow steps below to enable this feature

Start Adobe Reader

Tap on Edit in the menu bar and select Preferences

Under Categories highlight General

Put the checkmark next to the box Enable PDF thumbnail previews in Windows Explorer

I also recommend the article - Enable thumbnail of PDFs in Windows Explorer to get further information

https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/enable-pd...