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re: Thumbnails no longer load Saturday, March 18, 2006 at 4:22 pm Posted by Steve (23810 messages posted) Try this, might not work, but shouldn't hurt. http://www.dougknox.com/utility/scripts_desc/fixpix.htm [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Thumbnails no longer load Saturday, March 18, 2006 at 4:57 pm Posted by Vanessa (20 messages posted) It says on that site explicitly it's not for XP -- if I backup my registry, it should be safe to try anyway, right? PS. Thank you for replying, it's so hard to get help usually! On Saturday, March 18, 2006 at 4:22 pm, Steve wrote: >Try this, might not work, but shouldn't hurt. >http://www.dougknox.com/utility/scripts_desc/fixpix.htm [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Thumbnails no longer load Saturday, March 18, 2006 at 5:12 pm Posted by Steve (23810 messages posted) I missed that, so I probably wouldn't Try it if it is your sole computer. Look through KellysKorner for some XP version. The Site has quite a few XP fixes. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Thumbnails no longer load Saturday, March 18, 2006 at 5:26 pm Posted by Steve (23810 messages posted) It looks like tip 277 here. http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Thumbnails no longer load Saturday, March 18, 2006 at 8:07 pm Posted by Vanessa (20 messages posted) It didn't work. :( Thanks though! On Saturday, March 18, 2006 at 5:26 pm, Steve wrote: >It looks like tip 277 here. >http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm :( [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Thumbnails no longer load Saturday, March 18, 2006 at 8:19 pm Posted by AnchorMan (1465 messages posted) Make sure the .jpg and .bmp files are defaulting to the Windows program. Say if you use Adobe for .jpg editing then the thumbnails will default to Adobe and Windows cannot display them. Right click on any of the "want to be" thumbnails and open with, then choose Imaging and check off always open files of this type, then OK. This should default them back. AnchorMan On Saturday, March 18, 2006 at 8:07 pm, Vanessa wrote: >It didn't work. :( >Thanks though! > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Thumbnails no longer load Saturday, March 18, 2006 at 8:20 pm Posted by Steve (23810 messages posted) Enable show hidden files, then you will find a thumbs.db file in the effected folders. Delete these, and Windows will recreate them when you reboot. Maybe the little files are corrupted. Someone else will have another idea. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Thumbnails no longer load Saturday, March 18, 2006 at 8:43 pm Posted by Vanessa (20 messages posted) They all default to Windows picture and fax viewer. Which is the same program they have always defaulted to (actually, for a while it was IE or Firefox, but they defaulted to the picture viewer for several months after I replaced my harddrive. My harddrive died in November, is this relevant? I have an entirely new harddrive since then) On Saturday, March 18, 2006 at 8:19 pm, AnchorMan wrote: >Make sure the .jpg and .bmp files are defaulting to the Windows program. Say if you >use Adobe for .jpg editing then the thumbnails will default to Adobe and Windows >cannot display them. Right click on any of the "want to be" thumbnails and open with, >then choose Imaging and check off always open files of this type, then OK. This should >default them back. > > > > AnchorMan > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Thumbnails no longer load Saturday, March 18, 2006 at 8:48 pm Posted by Vanessa (20 messages posted) Um, I enabled the hidden files thing, and I don't have a thumbs.db file in ANY of my "My Documents" folders. Could that itself be the problem? Could they have accidentally been identified by AdAware or my antivirus, quarrantined, and then when I deleted the quarrantines, screwed up my computer? I have no idea what those files do, and I definitely don't remember seeing/deleting them! On Saturday, March 18, 2006 at 8:20 pm, Steve wrote: >Enable show hidden files, then you will find a thumbs.db file in the effected folders. >Delete these, and Windows will recreate them when you reboot. Maybe the little files >are corrupted. Someone else will have another idea. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Thumbnails no longer load Saturday, March 18, 2006 at 9:22 pm Posted by AnchorMan (1465 messages posted) One problem is the MS article references Win2K and Server not XP. Steve has you on the right track. The thumbs.db is in the same folder as any pictures you have. Still think you have some picture of album software that is "hogging" the picture files. AnchorMan On Saturday, March 18, 2006 at 2:51 pm, Vanessa wrote: >One day I noticed that picture thumbnails were no longer functioning when browsing >any of my folders. They also won't load when I am trying to upload pictures, which >is really annoying! > >The only thing I deleted at all were a few quarantine logs in AdAware -- I don't >see how that would affect my folder thumbnails. I also didn't change any of my preferences >in Windows at all. > >Windows icons display normally, but not thumbnails of the actual pictures. When you >select a thumbnail view, you get the text name of the file with no details. Here >is what it looks like exploring a folder with thumbnails: >http://i2.tinypic.com/rbl2j6.jpg > >See? That's not right at all! > >I found this article ( >http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q243401/) in MS support and did what it said, >but that didn't fix the problem. > >I hope one of you can help me with this! I hate Windows... things constantly stop >working for no reason at all. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Thumbnails no longer load Saturday, March 18, 2006 at 9:29 pm Posted by C9H13NO3 (361 messages posted) Also try start>run and type in: regsvr32 shimgvw.dll [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Thumbnails no longer load Sunday, March 19, 2006 at 7:26 am Posted by Steve (23810 messages posted) If your adaware program deleted the thumbs.db files. Windows should have recreated them. Look to see if (Do not cache thumbnails) has been Checked. Go to Tools / Folder Options / View In the first section under Files and Folders, clear (Do not cache thumbnails) if it has been checked. Then Reboot. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Thumbnails no longer load Sunday, March 19, 2006 at 9:15 am Posted by Vanessa (20 messages posted) OK, I unchecked "do not cache thumbnails", rebooted, no improvement. What is weird is I looked through all of my "My Pictures" folders as well as two of the main folders I keep pictures in, and none of them had a thumbs.db file or any hidden files at all except one had a "folder.dat" file. Only one folder with about 8 to 10 pictures in it had a thumbs.db file. I also want to add that I don't have really that many pictures on my computer, probably around 400-500 max, and pretty well disbursed among different folders -- a friend suggested I had too many pictures for Windows to load thumbnails, but I don't see how that could be the case. On Sunday, March 19, 2006 at 7:26 am, Steve wrote: >If your adaware program deleted the thumbs.db files. Windows should have recreated >them. Look to see if (Do not cache thumbnails) has been Checked. > >Go to Tools / Folder Options / View >In the first section under Files and Folders, clear (Do not cache thumbnails) >if it has been checked. Then Reboot. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Thumbnails no longer load Sunday, March 19, 2006 at 9:30 am Posted by Steve (23810 messages posted) I have thousands of pictures, so that shouldn't be a problem. I would try one more thing. Make a new User account, and see if it is has the same problem. If it does then the problem is the system wide, if the new User Account is OK then your User Account is corrupted. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Thumbnails no longer load Sunday, March 19, 2006 at 10:43 am Posted by Vanessa (20 messages posted) The whole system is corrupted. :( There were actually other problems that went along with the thumbnail ones (like the newer start menu view doesn't work, but the old one does, and the help registry is kaputt as well), but those ones didn't bother me so I ignored them. I guess I should have known I had a system problem, but I'm not that good with computers anyway. Thanks for trying to help, even though we couldn't fix it. On Sunday, March 19, 2006 at 9:30 am, Steve wrote: >I have thousands of pictures, so that shouldn't be a problem. I would try one more >thing. Make a new User account, and see if it is has the same problem. >If it does then the problem is the system wide, if the new User Account is OK then >your User Account is corrupted. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Thumbnails no longer load Sunday, March 19, 2006 at 10:54 am Posted by Steve (23810 messages posted) You did a good job following along, but you need someone smarter then me too:)......I spent a little time Googling this, and can't find much else. If you have System Restore Working, you could try that to a point before this problem started. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Thumbnails no longer load Sunday, March 19, 2006 at 11:27 am Posted by Vanessa (20 messages posted) I don't have any restore points before then for some reason. I remember creating one after my HD crashed in November, but I can't access it in system restore. Do you just think it would be easier to save all of my personal files off of my drive and reinstall Windows? I have the install disks for all programs I use, and I found an online storage site that gives you 40mb of storage free -- I have less stuff than that on my drive. Alternatively, I could buy a USB drive, which I've been meaning to do anyway. It would be a pain in the ass to get everything the way I like it again, sure, but at least Windows would work, and then I could create a restore point on a clean system, save on the web-based storage system as well as my computer, and have in the event that my system gets corrupted again. On Sunday, March 19, 2006 at 10:54 am, Steve wrote: >You did a good job following along, but you need someone smarter then me too:)......I >spent a little time Googling this, and can't find much else. If you have System Restore >Working, you could try that to a point before this problem started. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Thumbnails no longer load Sunday, March 19, 2006 at 11:50 am Posted by Vanessa (20 messages posted) 40mb? Yeah right, I have like 30gb I got confused. Anyway, I so wanted a USB drive for a long time... On Sunday, March 19, 2006 at 11:27 am, Vanessa wrote: >I don't have any restore points before then for some reason. I remember creating >one after my HD crashed in November, but I can't access it in system restore. Do >you just think it would be easier to save all of my personal files off of my drive >and reinstall Windows? I have the install disks for all programs I use, and I found >an online storage site that gives you 40mb of storage free -- I have less stuff than >that on my drive. Alternatively, I could buy a USB drive, which I've been meaning >to do anyway. It would be a pain in the ass to get everything the way I like >it again, sure, but at least Windows would work, and then I could create a restore >point on a clean system, save on the web-based storage system as well as my computer, >and have in the event that my system gets corrupted again. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Thumbnails no longer load Sunday, March 19, 2006 at 11:55 am Posted by Steve (23810 messages posted) I'm a bit annal about backing stuff up. I would definitely say it is a good time. The Pictures will probably fit on a CDR or 2, and it is good to have the real personal type Data backed up several times. I have the Family Digital photos backed up about a dozen times. :).....If you read posts here you would see that External USB drives have some break down problems. I have one, and have had one enclosure go bad. The Drive itself survived, but the enclosure stopped powering the Drive. I suggest on those to not leave them running. In other words. Turn them on to backup the data, then remove them right afterwards. If used that way they are safer to use. Once you do that you could do a Repair install of XP if you have original XP install CD. If you have Manufacture system restore Software then some other procedure may be needed. http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum