Windows 10: Why do my Video Icons no longer show Thumbnail of video?

Hiya! Please help. Initially, my video icons in Explorer would appear as thumbnails of the video they represented. What I mean is, "La La Land.mp4", for example, would show as a rectangular snapshot of the video. But now, all my video icons are this standard default as seen here in this snap:




It's not a biggie. Videos play, but I kinda liked the way they appeared before.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

Thank you.

*Note I used a 3rd party app, called "BoostSpeed" that has a Win 10 Tweaker option. When run, it 'streamlines' Win 10 to supposedly run faster by applying a number of settings.
I am probably wrong, but I think one of the changes made may have disabled the video icons displayed as a thumbnail in order for explorer windows to open faster? That's the best I can come up with.

What do you think?

:)

 

Video thumbnails

Why did my Video thumbnails disappear and icon cache will not rebuild?

 

I don't get pictures of my videos anymore on the thumbnail.

For some unknown reason, any new videos I save to my computer doesn't show previews anymore, but my old video files still have their previews.

1) Always show icons, never thumbnails is unchecked

2) Performance options have 'Adjust for Best Appearance' checked

Can anyone tell me why video previews would stop working all of a sudden?

 

Hi there

I use this free product, BabelSoft Media Preview, to solve that problem ...

BabelSoft / 博语软件

Here's a review ...

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3152...-explorer.html

 

Yes, a good guess, disabling thumbnail previews disables it, you should try that first.

Enable or Disable Thumbnail Previews in File Explorer in Windows 10 Customization Tutorials

You can also install Download K-Lite Codec Pack Basic

 

Thanks to both of you! I read and printed the Windows 10 Customization Tutorial, by Brink, and it helped a lot. I downloaded K-Lite as well. I kinda like what I read about BabelSoft Media Preview and I'm going to go with that. What I find amazing is that it even does thumbnails for video files not supported by explorer, like FLV! Wow! I truly had no idea before. You guys made my day.

I'm currently ripping my collection to mp4 with the hopes of one day making a server to my devices, like smartPhone and smartTV. Any further help would be greatly appreciated- I'm knew at this >_<