Thumbnails for video files no longer showing in Windows explorer

[pde709]

Somewhere along the line windows explorer stopped displaying thumbnails for video files in My Videos (see pic). I'm not sure what triggered the change but a few things I did recently include uninstalling Windows Media Center and rebuilt the WMP library.

A few things I tried to fix, all failed:
1. played around with the Tools/Folder Options/View settings in win explorer
2. Control panel/Performance Information and Tools/Adjust Visual Effects is set to "Adjust for best appearance"
3. Uninstalled/reinstalled WMP12 via control panel

The thumbs appear perfectly when viewed in WMP but not in explorer windows, any ideas? Thanks.

 

[Harvey Meale]

Hi, pde709.

Give this a go. The second article is a problem similar to yours.

• How to Enable or Disable Media and Video Thumbnail Preview in Windows XP
• Win 7 - Thumbnails missing from Mpeg, WMV and FLV video files

Thanks,
Harvey Meale

 

[pde709]

I'd tried the first option but got error "The module shmedia.dll failed to load..."

But the second option worked. Although I didn't attempt to uninstall any currently existing codecs (it appears I have 99 existing codecs installed and I have no idea what is what) I went ahead and installed K-Lite 64 bit 3.7.0, rebooted, and the thumbnails display perfectly now.

Thanks Harvey. Rep+1

 

[Harvey Meale]

I'd tried the first option but got error "The module shmedia.dll failed to load..."

But the second option worked. Although I didn't attempt to uninstall any currently existing codecs (it appears I have 99 existing codecs installed and I have no idea what is what) I went ahead and installed K-Lite 64 bit 3.7.0, rebooted, and the thumbnails display perfectly now.

Thanks Harvey. Rep+1

Hi, pde709.

Great! I'm glad I could help.

Thanks,
Harvey Meale

 

[guybc]

Thank you Harvey. I had the same problem with the same icon and the second solution worked for me also