video thumbnail file icons

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In my new pc I built the video thumbnails dont show the bginning of the video like my old PC does, it just shows the WMP icon. Does anyone know what this problem is?

CB

In the button bar of the file manager window, there is a dropdown menu called 'views', make sure it's set on 'thumbnails'.

aznherb36

thank you

CB

Glad to help

aznherb36

it doesnt work anymore I right clicked on my comp > Manage >view large icons. Am i going to the right place? I also did it mydocuments > view >thumbnails but it doesnt show.

Leonardo

You can also just right click in an empty part of the Windows Explorer/My Computer window and select View, the select Thumbnails. (at least in XP)

aznherb36

Ugh, So after I repaired windows, the thumbmails where working again. This time when I was installing everything, I double checked the video folder to see if it was that program that disabled it. When I updated to SP2 I noticed that was when it happened. Does anyone know why this happens and how I can fix it, now that I KNOW what is causing this problem?
EDIT:
The thumbnails ONLY for .AVI files are not showing, and also are not playing, so that is the reason why the thumbnails dont show? None of my .AVI files are playing on WMP. What codec am I missing?
EDIT:
installed Divx, and read that microsoft screwed up with one of the WMP updates so I uninstalled that that only WMP udate and the thumbnails show, and play now.

Leonardo

installed Divx, and read that microsoft screwed up with one of the WMP updates so I uninstalled that that only WMP udate and the thumbnails show, and play now.

You uninstalled DivX or you uninstalled the WMP update? If the WMP update, can you recall which one? Nonetheless, this is good information!

aznherb36

I dont remember which one but I will see if they show up when I search for windows update again.