Album art takes long to load or doesn't load at all in explorer.exe

I still have the problem, and it only happens to album art on music files. Please help, the problem is really annoying me.

Thanks.

Ive added my specs to my sevenforums account.

If there is any other information you acquire just let me know thanks.

If this helps, the problem is sometimes never there, but thats after refreshing the page a few times, but then it goes back to its original sate with the problem after about 5 10 minutes of not using the music folder.

Hello ksbansal.

Does the album art display correctly on your Windows Media Player? (Or whatever 3rd party media player you use?) If you open the file location, does the art show up?

Edit: Have you tried the old standard -- SFC /SCANNOW Command - System File Checker

Britton30 said:

ksbansal said:

I had a similar problem with windows photo viewer. The images would either not load or take a long time to load (thumbnails were fine), but to resolve this problem I just deleted one of the database files for windows photo viewer. This problem also a raised at the same time as the one we are discussing.

That may be the root of your problem. It is never a good idea to decide a system files isn't needed and simply delete it.
Try running SFC /SCANNOW Command - System File Checker up to three time with a reboot between each run. If the first one returns with no violations found, you are OK.
Then try System Restore to a point before this happened.
Let us know how it goes.:)
EDIT: I didn't see Stevie's post.

stevieray said:

Hello ksbansal.

Does the album art display correctly on your Windows Media Player? (Or whatever 3rd party media player you use?) If you open the file location, does the art show up?

Edit: Have you tried the old standard -- SFC /SCANNOW Command - System File Checker

Yes the album art comes up everywhere else including in windows media player and in the details pane in explorer when browsing through music. Also I have tried system restore a number of times, it didnt work. I'm also having trouble running elevated cmd using the instructions in SFC /SCANNOW Command - System File Checker

When I follow the instructions on SFC /SCANNOW Command - System File Checker I end up getting this message in cmd

Can't do the SFC, huh... feh.

If it was me, I would run a repair install. Repair Install
Get Sony to send you a Win7 Home Premium disc with SP1 (note: repair install can't be done with a rescue disc or from the system reserve partition... it has to be a real Win7 installation disc).