Windows 7 not showing all Thumbnails + green bar

[ToeKneee]

Hi,
It's going on 3 weeks now, 4 by this weekend, that I lost all my thumbnails.
I have searched this group and followed every step I can think of and I still am unable to fix it.
It all started when I had to compress a video with VLC. I have gone back, uninstalled it.
Rebooted, restored, scanned for virus, malware, etc and nothing.
I also have that never ending green bar at the top of the address that keeps going till almost the end but doesn't stop. I have even left it running overnight, right through the next day, a full 24 hours.
I do not want to reinstall.
I have run out of ideas, tricks, tweaks.
I would really need any help possible

Thank you!!!

 

[Megahertz07]

Welcome to the Forum.

The green bar is on top of file explorer or desktop?
Can you please take a snapshot to show us what are you seeing?
Go to the page you see the green barand expand it. Launch the snipping tool and take a snapshot of the whole window and save the image.
Here, on the answer box you find a paper clip. On the window, browse to the file - upload. It will put the image below the text you have written.

 

[lehnerus2000]

Have you checked your HDD(s) for errors?

Tutorial
Disk Check


This sort of thing can also be caused when you use Thumbnails instead of Icons for images & videos.

You could try changing your "Folder Options" to see if this is causing the issue:

• Type "Folder" into the Start Menu Search Box
• Select "Folder Options" from the results list

Change the "Always show icon, never thumbnails" option.

Note:
"Always show icon, never thumbnails" is not selected in the screenshot.

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[ToeKneee]

I hope this works, it's my first time in a forum.
I have attached 2 screen shots taken just now.
One is what I see when I open explorer.
The other, I had to do the green bar with a marker to simulate, but that is what I get, it goes to the "refresh" symbol and jams there. It's as if its searching and searching for I don't know what.
I have left it run for 24 hours and the green bar never turns off.

 

[SIW2]

Did you try turning off windows search?

 

[ToeKneee]

I do not know how to turn off windows search?

 

[SIW2]

EITHER:

Type msconfig in start box, click it when it pops up. Select Services Tab, scroll down to windows search, untick, APPLY,OK




Or you can access the services via computer management

 

[ToeKneee]

Thanks for the tip, I turned it off but now I have something else, besides the no thumbnails.
On the left side, where I circled, its continuous magnifying glasses looping in circles over those folders.

 

[ToeKneee]

Update on the green bar, it's back as it was, trying to load non stop, 2 days now.
Still no thumbnails
even folder icons are gone.

 

[wither 2]

In regards to the thumbnail problem, I suggest going to Accessories, System Tools, Disk Cleanup. Select the C: drive. When it first runs and tells you how much disk space it can recover, check the box for Thumbnails. Let it run and select Ok to delete files. After it's finished, reboot. It should repopulate the thumbnails.

 

[ToeKneee]

I have done that.
It doesn't work

 

[ToeKneee]

And this is a screen shot I took now, even after I have removed the check mark on search and rebooted..
It did nothing

 

[wither 2]

Open Windows Explorer and select the problem drive.

Open the Task Manager.

Right click on Windows Explorer and select End Task.

Click on New Task.

Enter explorer.exe and run it.

Does that help?

 

[ToeKneee]

Error: The remote procedure call failed and did not execute.

 

[Megahertz07]

As you have 10 drives on your computer, once you open explorer it will update the index. That is why it shows the green bar.
Try to turn off indexing for all drives.
https://www.online-tech-tips.com/co...rmace-turn-off-indexing-on-your-local-drives/

 

[ToeKneee]

I have turned it on and off and nothing has changed.
And I still have no thumbnails..

 

[ToeKneee]

Tonights screen capture.
I'm giving up.
Seems to be getting worse.

 

[wither 2]

Since you got the RPC error, I wonder if your profile is corrupted.

If you create a new user account and log into it, do you have the same problem?

 

[ToeKneee]

The error goes away after rebooting.
I would like to try the new user account but I don't know how too.

 

[wither 2]

In Control Panel, select User Accounts..........................

Select Create a new account.

Give it a name.

Select a standard account.

Create Account.

Reboot. You should be able to select the new account during the boot process.