Windows 10: [SOLVED] Missing thumbnails for system apps Windows 10

As you can see thumbnails for apps like settings, photos and more all have this blank image thumbnail instead of their actual logo. Help

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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.

 

missing icons / thumbnails

I would like to try and repair my windows 10 installation that no longer displays thumbnails for certain file types like png images. It seems like this is usually due to a file association issue. This seems to be evident in the 'open with' context menu and the icons for system apps appear blank. Blank icons for system apps such as calculator, snip&sketch, photos also appear on the taskbar. Is this something that I can repair or is it worth doing a fresh install. I have not made any system restore points and am running Win10 ver 22H2 build 19045.2486.

 

Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

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