Windows 10: Windows 10 File Explorer--No Thumbnails, Just Icons

I cannot see the thumbnails of my photo files. A few show up, but not all. I have tried all the fixes suggested, but nothing works. I don't understand a what's wrong and b why MS hasn't fixed this. There are hundreds of users asking this or a similar question about their photo files. Come on! This is a brand new computer I've only had 5 months and already I have a host of problems, but can I get anyone to talk with me? No. Even my Senator's office answers her telephone. How do I get help with these issues? And I'm sure all the others do too. I've read some pretty angry posts here.


When I worked at The House of Representatives for a NY congresswoman the rule of thumb was that if one person picked up the phone to talk about an issue, then we should assume that 50 others had the same issue. When someone sat down and wrote a letter to the congresswoman, we counted it as representing 100 constituents. So . . .


. . . with all the people saying this is a problem for them, including me, who waited until my computer actually gagged and wouldn't revive to move to Windows 10 WHY won't someone at MS help us, THEIR constituents? This is just offensive. I'm a writer and usually publish photos with my work. How can I select a photo from 21,046 icons? I need to see the thumbnails. And I'm declaring right here for MS and all you comrades to see: if this doesn't get fixed by September 1, I'm moving to Apple! That's how desperate I feel about this issue.


Can someone help me? I'm sure it won't be an MS employee. God knows what you people do up there in Seattle. You sure never talk to me. I'm actually old enough to remember when you did talk with us. But that was before Bill Gates became the richest man in the world. It's really insulting that you let all your customers flail around like this.

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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.

 

Thumbnail support for Adobe Applications within Windows Explorer

There is an option in File Explorer that allows icons to change in thumbnail view in Windows 10. To enable thumbnail view, follow the steps below:

• Press Windows + E to open File Explorer.
• Click the View tab of File Explorer.
• Click Options.
• In the Folder Options, click the View tab.
• Make sure that the Display file icon on thumbnails checkbox were enabled.

Let us know if you can now view Adobe program icons.

 

File Explorer - Some PDF's show thumbnail image, some don’t

In Windows 10 File Explorer, I see thumbnails for a few of my pdf files but still see the generic Adobe pdf icon for most of them.

• In Windows 10 folder options, the checkbox for “Always show icons, never thumbnails” is unchecked.
• On the Adobe Reader preferences general tab, “Enable PDF thumbnails previews in Windows Explorer” is checked.
• Adobe Acrobat is set as my default PDF viewer.
• I have used Disk Cleanup to delete all my thumbnails to clear and rebuild the cache, yet the problem persists.

Any suggestions on how I can see all the pdf icons as thumbnails?
Windows 10 Pro, Version 1903, Build 18362.657
Adobe Acrobat Reader DC (20.006.20034)

I asked over in the Adobe Acrobat Reader forum a few days ago but have received no replies.





Ron