Icon thumbnail problem & can't change desktop solid color background

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  1. semih7106
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    Icon thumbnail problem & can't change desktop solid color background


    My desktop background became solid black colors and can only select from solid colors.
    Even if I select image it still shows solid color and thumbnail of image in
    win7/personalization does not work. (look at image 1 below)

    another problem all folder, video and image thumbnails dont work (look at image 2 below)

    and some of folder sometimes shows black square on it (look at image 3 below)


    All these happened after taking word document from usb my flash drive.
    Because those word documents are distorted in another computer
    and their extension was .scr and i assume this may cause all these.
    but I use Eset Smart Security 5 and no warning and after I scanned pc in
    safe mode with Kaspersky 2012 and they found nothing.
    I tried Malwarebytes and Spybot - Search & Destroy.
    I also tried Combofix 4-5 times and it deleted some file but
    problems are still present please help me I want to solve problems
    without formatting..

    My system:
    Windows 7 Home Premium (Activated, not a copy license)
    Nvidia Geforce 9600 GS driver is updated.









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  3. lehnerus2000
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    sfc /scannow


    You may need to open the "Command Prompt" and execute:
    sfc /scannow
    Tutorial:
    SFC /SCANNOW Command - System File Checker

    Make sure those Word docs have doc or docx as their extensions.
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  4. semih7106
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    lehnerus2000 said:
    You may need to open the "Command Prompt" and execute:
    sfc /scannow
    Tutorial:
    SFC /SCANNOW Command - System File Checker

    Make sure those Word docs have doc or docx as their extensions.

    Thanks for reply,
    I also tried sfc/scannow but it didn't solve problem
    and after suspicon I deleted those word docs.


    Any other idea ?
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  6. Arc
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    Welcome aboard, semih7106 :)

    If you disable thumbnail preview , what is the situation ? Can you see the generic filetypes icons, and access the wallpapers ?
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  7. semih7106
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    Arc said:
    Welcome aboard, semih7106 :)

    If you disable thumbnail preview , what is the situation ? Can you see the generic filetypes icons, and access the wallpapers ?
    Thanks for reply :)

    I found this tutorials before and checked options
    and enable, disable option is like showed in tutorials.

    If i disable thumbnail option, generic icons are showed
    and yes I can access wallpapers, folders with no problems.

    In problems i mentioned in first post, background problem really disturbs me
    I can change background with an image by click right mouse/set as background
    but after restart of windows it becomes solid colors again.
    In personalize section image are showed like below image and
    selecting image no affect on changing background.


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  8. Arc
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    Sorry for it, but I have no other suggestion for you other than Clean Install Windows 7 . As I have experienced earlier, even a repair install also fails to resolve this issue.
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  10. semih7106
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    Arc said:
    Sorry for it, but I have no other suggestion for you other than Clean Install Windows 7 . As I have experienced earlier, even a repair install also fails to resolve this issue.
    Thanks for your suggestions anyway.For now I dont want to format
    therefore i try to find solution and found solution for background problem here

    Cannot change background from solid colour

    I install Irfanview and change background and after restart it didnt change to solid colors.
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  11. lehnerus2000
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    File Associations


    semih7106 said:
    Thanks for your suggestions anyway.For now I dont want to format
    therefore i try to find solution and found solution for background problem here

    Cannot change background from solid colour

    I install Irfanview and change background and after restart it didnt change to solid colors.
    I assume that you set picture file types to be associated with IrfanView?
    Perhaps your file associations got screwed up.

    Tutorial
    Default File Type Associations - Restore

    You could try resetting the scr file association.
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  12. semih7106
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    lehnerus2000 said:
    I assume that you set picture file types to be associated with IrfanView?
    Perhaps your file associations got screwed up.

    Tutorial
    Default File Type Associations - Restore

    You could try resetting the scr file association.
    Thanks for reply,

    I tried it but it didnt work
    I am very curious now what is the damn problem
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  13. lehnerus2000
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    Weird Indeed


    That is really strange.
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