Windows Explorer Previews all blank

Cato said:

Previewing .wmv files shows me a scene from the video, .flv shows the windows icon as does an .mp3 file. But they can be viewed by clicking on them.

When you've had something working in the past and it quits, the first thing you want to do is find out why. In this case, I can't give you a "why", yet, but I'll keep studying in case it happens to me. :)

Sooner or later someone will come up with the answer.

I tried the Acrobat registry hack and that didn't work. Perhaps I should reinstall Acrobat and see if that restores the file preview.

Lil' Domii said:

Try a system integrity scan (this seems to have worked for one other issue) by opening the Command Prompt as the administrator and type in:

sfc /scannow

Its a long shot, but see how it goes.

"Windows Resource protection did not find any integrity violations" No dice there either. Thanks for the idea though.

I have not uninstalled Adobe Reader, Acrobat Pro, or Foxit. I have all of them installed.

That's not a good idea right there.You néed to choose one application.

What is the default application for opening the pdf files?

Do you have a full license for Acrobat Pro and Registry Mechanic?

reghakr said:

I have not uninstalled Adobe Reader, Acrobat Pro, or Foxit. I have all of them installed.

That's not a good idea right there.You néed to choose one application.

What is the default application for opening the pdf files?

Do you have a full license for Acrobat Pro and Registry Mechanic?

I have the full license of both Acrobat Pro and Registry Mechanic. And, Acrobat Pro is set as the default PDF reader.

The reason I asked is because Registry Mechanic will not fix the scan only if it's a registered copy and you have to go back and scan again for it to remove the entries.

reghakr said:

The reason I asked is because Registry Mechanic will not fix the scan only if it's a registered copy and you have to go back and scan again for it to remove the entries.

Its a registered copy.

No problem,

thanks for purchasing.

reghakr said:

No problem,

thanks for purchasing.

Unfortunately, Registry mechanic didn't solve the issue. I'm removing all PDF apps now (Acrobat Pro, Adobe Reader, and Foxit). Then, I will reinstall Foxit, and see if that fixes the PDF preview pane issue. I dont know why I can't scroll the .RTF and .TXT files though. I will post back with results.

My PDF or doc files are not working either. The .txt, .mht, .reg, ,.ini, .xml,.rtf, .jpg, .bmp, .gif, .png, .htm, .html, etc are working.

reghakr said:

My PDF or doc files are not working either. The .txt, .mht, .reg, ,.ini, .xml,.rtf, .jpg, .bmp, .gif, .png, .htm, .html, etc are working.

What does the preview of your .txt files look like? I am assume you can scroll through the .txt document?