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Other Operating Systems => Windows 7 All => Windows 7 | Windows 9 => Fixes => Topic started by: javajolt on June 10, 2009, 08:43:20 PM
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What happened to the "thumbnails view" in Vista? In XP I could open a folder, select "thumbnails" view and see miniatures of the different images in the folder. Now, in Vista Home, all I see is the icon with the logo of the program that is used to open the image.I can get no mini preview no matter how large I make the icon. It is really annoying having to open every single image to find what I want before renaming and sort them.
W7 & Vista totally includes the thumbnails view in multiple sizes: Medium Icons, Large Icons, and Extra Large Icons in the views list. At the Small Icons size it does use the generic icon. The same is true in Windows 7. If you don't see thumbnails you almost certainly have a wrong setting in Windows Explorer. Navigate to a folder containing pictures, so success will be obvious. Press F10 to reveal the Windows Explorer menu. Choose Folder Options from the Tools menu. Click the View tab and remove the check next to "Always show icons, never thumbnails". Once you click OK you should see thumbnails for your pictures again.