Windows Vista Cannot View Thumbnails
When Windows Vista cannot view thumbnails this can be very
annoying, spent ages searching for the answer? Tried all types
of registry changes, but to no avail, this is the same issues I
encountered, one of the articles even recommended rebuilding my
computer, but as I’d only performed a clean install of Vista the
previous day, which is not a five minute job this was not going
to happen.
The first thing we need to do is back track, if you are using
Windows media player as your chosen viewer for media files, it
does not really come with a sufficient amount of media codes for
playing many of the video files around today, so I downloaded a
codec pack, it was some kind of lite version according to the
site I downloaded it from, it looked as though it would give me
support to every type of media format under the sun, but as this
was the only change I’d made to an otherwise standard Vista
build this looked like the culprit.
So this was uninstalled, of course I lost the ability to play
most of my video files then.
Next I installed another Video player called Crystal, the good
points about crystal are; it’s free and the more important part,
it only downloads which media codec's it needs, and unlike Media
player it actually downloads them.
So download and install Crystal, run one of your video files,
allow Crystal to download any required codec files, once you’re
happy the file is playing ok you can still keep Windows Media
player as your default player, but two things should happen now,
Windows media player should now be able to play the file and
after a few seconds any compatible media files should change to
a thumbnail of the movie.
Keep crystal installed, but you only ever need use it if you
find any more media files that Windows media cannot play.
It’s very hard to pinpoint exactly which media codec or codec's
cause the thumbnails to be disabled, but it looks as though the
secret is, only download exactly what’s needed.
If Vista cannot view thumbnails let us
know and we’ll post more possible solutions
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