Okay, I have a problem with the appearance of thumbnails on my PC. About a month ago, something happened to affect how they look. Instead of getting a miniature version of the picture, the thumbnail now is a white box with that geveric symbol Windows uses to designate a picture file.
I don’t have a clue as to how this happened, but it’s rather disconcerting. I have a lot of picture files, and now I have no way of seeing what they are without opening them.
I am running Windows 2000 Server as my OS, and this problem only seems to affect JPEG files. Bitmaps still have ordinary thumbnails.
Just an idea: the file association for.jpg has gotten hosed. Whatever graphics handler you’re using isn’t being associated with that extension. How to fix it is something I can’t help with. So the guess as to what’s wrong is all I’m attempting here.
Well, All jpeg’s are assigned to be opened by Microsoft Photo Editor. I suppose it’s possible that I accidentally erased something important-I do stupid things all the time-but I can’t recal ever messing around in any place where such a file would be kept.
This is for XPhome:
"To change how you view items in a folder
Open My Documents.
If the folder you want is not located in My Documents or its subfolders, use Search to find it. To open Search, click Start, point to Search, and then click For Files or Folders.
Double-click the folder that contains the files you want to view.
On the View menu, click Filmstrip, Thumbnails, Tiles, Icons, List or Details. "
It appears to be the icon for Photo Editor, a brush coming off and up to the right of a little picture frame. handy, I actually have tried fiddling with the views. This problem remains no matter what.
I guess a better way to phrase the question in the OP is: can anyone help me FIX this?
Try changing the association. The easiest way is to hold down the Shift key, right-click the file, hit Open With, Choose Program, check the box for Always use this program to open these files, and choose Microsoft Paint.
If that doesn’t work then use the Rebuild Icons option on the Repair tab of TweakUI.