Thumbnails and preview messed up


  1. Posts : 7
    Win7
       #1

    Thumbnails and preview messed up


    Hello,

    If you look at the attached picture, you see how a folder with pictures looks like when I open it. A few random thumbnails get loaded, but mostly they donīt.

    I have tried running disk cleanup and deleted my thumbnail cache but it didnīt help. A few months ago I did however follow a guide which was supposed to stop windows from clearing the thumbnail cache automatically, so that one didnīt have to wait so long when opening a folder with lots of pictures. Could this be what is messing with the thumbs? I canīt remember what the guide made me change though.

    Thanks for answers.
    Attached Thumbnails Attached Thumbnails Thumbnails and preview messed up-win7thumb.png  
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  2. Posts : 7
    Win7
    Thread Starter
       #2

    Found the solution myself. For future reference:

    go to user/xxx/appdata/local/microsoft/windows/ and right click on the folder "explorer". Go to the security tab, advanced and change permissions. Make sure that no delete/rewrite permissions are set to "deny".
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  3. Posts : 1,180
    Windows 7 Ultimate
       #3

    Hmm.. seems like an odd solution.. glad to hear that fixed it for ya though!!
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  4. Posts : 1,299
    Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit) *** Windows XP SP3 (32-bit), OSX 10.6
       #4

    Thanks for returning to post your solution, Ekenryd! We appreciate you taking the time. Glad you got it fixed.

    Cheers,

    Walker
    Windows Outreach Team
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