Windows 10: Turn icons into thumbnails

How do I turn icons into thumbnails in my picture folders? I have have tried folder view settings without success

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Thumbnails

Hi Alan,

Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community. Appreciate your interest in using Windows 10.

Follow the steps provided below to turn Thumbnails on/off:

• Open File Explorer.
• In the Menu bar, click on View and then Options.
• In the View tab, uncheck/check the option for “Display file icon on thumbnails” to disable/enable thumbnails.

Hope the information is helpful. Please revert back with necessary information and we’ll be glad to assist you.

 

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.

 

Stop Windows from automatically deleting thumbnail icons.

In rare cases, this issue could have happened due to the antivirus or corrupted profile. After you uncheck the box, the settings keep on checking the box. Windows settings are not automatically configured, we have settings and options to choose what's best
for you. The antivirus could prevent making any changes to your settings. Corrupted profile in Windows 10 could also cause this issue, a corrupted user profile couldn't be configured if the profile is already corrupted.

We also suggest that you turn on thumbnail previews in file explorer. you can follow the steps below:

• Click/tap on the View tab.
• Uncheck Always show icons, never thumbnails.
• check Display file icon on thumbnails.
• click/tap on OK.

If the issue still occurs, you can also chat us or request a call from our Microsoft Answer Desk at this

link.

Let us know the result if you need further assistance.