

Of course there should be an option to reset the system to it’s original installation state called it “Revert To Brand New”, “Blue Screen Of Life”, or whatever yet obv that’s not a sensible biz decision in the eyes of The Monopoly. Nevertheless, I tried every other common and senseless recommendations like FixIt, SFC, useless boot media recovery, partition restore options, regenerating the database, increasing the image limit count, zooming in and out, setting appearance’s show thumbnails instead of icons, and Explorer’s display file icons on thumbnails and not always shown icons never thumbnails all in retrospect which were rather self evident to be in their correct settings anyways well, you name it! &BTW, Group Policy settings where even less of a concern. I knew that a complete reinstall of the system would certainly “fix” the issue but didn’t wanted that just for such minor quibble. I couldn’t do a Restore Point since like many, can’t fig afford that luxury. The most flabbergasting thing was that sometimes for an instant they would, yet disappeared as quickly as they appeared changing to the default mountain landscape frame or geometric shapes icons.

Before the baffling event, all registered file types would do so, obv. I had a similar problem with the exception that for some unknown reason some of the files generated a thumbnail, while others did not. Now you should get thumbnail previews in Windows Explorer without any problem as shown in following screenshot: If its not enabled, enable the option and click on Apply button. Now make sure “ Show thumbnails instead of icons” option is enabled. Go to “ Advanced” tab and click on “ Settings” button in “ Performance” section.ģ. Type sysdm.cpl in RUN or Start Menu search box and press Enter. If you can’t access Folder Options, you can use following alternative method:ġ. If the option is enabled, uncheck the checkbox and click on Apply button. Now go to View tab and make sure “ Always show icons, never thumbnails” option is not enabled i.e. Open Windows Explorer, click on Organize button present in command bar and select “ Folder and search options“.Ģ. It might be due to a bug or the user accidentally turned off thumbnails using Folder Options or System Properties.Īnyway if you are also facing this problem, you can use following easy fix to show thumbnails again in Windows Explorer:ġ. Sometimes Windows Explorer doesn’t show thumbnail previews for images and other files as shown in following screenshot: When I change the view type to thumbnails, Windows doesn’t show thumbnail previews.Ĭan you please help me in fixing the problem?Īctually its a very common problem in Windows. I’m using Windows 7 and suddenly Windows Explorer has stopped showing thumbnails for files and folders.
