Windows 7: Thumbnail Previews - Enable or Disable

awesome article brink
simply awesome thank you......

You're welcome Skumar, and welcome to Seven Forums.

thanks for so much info, helped me

Glad it could help SteeLx.

Its disable thumbnail view in all explorer and Desktop too!
I want to disable only desktop icon thumbnail view [desktop icon is in icon mode but show preview of files like thumbnail view mode! how I can disable desktop thumbnail view only but view any other thumbnails?

Hello Tom, and welcome to Seven Forums.

Unfortunately, thumbnail previews is an all or none setting.

Why?! Desktop icons mode is tile or icon! [no thumbnail]

Yep, thumbnail previews work on the desktop as well. You could test it by placing an image file on the desktop.

So about 4 days ago I lost most but not all of my video thumbnails after uninstalling McAfee total protection. I have done everything to get them back from checking the folder options to changing the redegit... I have uninstalled and re-installed haali, ffdshow and reset everything to default. Nothing works.Everything plays just fine. I am however a person with OCD and cannot have a mix of thumbnails and icons. I attempted to clean the cache and everything I have ever read on how to fix it and it's not fixed. I am a 50 yr old woman who is basic computer literate but anything more gets easily lost. Why would a system just stop showing all the thumbnails and only do some... I have a series with 24 episodes and only 3 show the rest are icons and they are all the same format.

what format are they?