Hi y'all.

First post, first problem with Vista, hope you guys bring me some help rolleyes.gif

Quick as possible: I used to have thumbnail previews on my mp3 and video files .

I mean, every single mp3 file with cover art attached to it used to show up clicking on the folder
view menu ("mosaic" and "large icons").

Video files behave the same way, a small thumbnail appeared showing the content of the
file (avi & mpeg included).

Now, both of them doesn't show anything but the file icon. Kinda messy because some older
files already show that preview, but the newer ones doesn't. The green bar on the top of the
explorer window used to search for new files and place the thumbnail over the newer ones, now
it doesn't come up anymore.

could be some kind of problem with new software installed?
I'm on Vista Ultimate x32, 5'9 on Aero. Thanks in advance!

PS: Sorry about my english, i'm spanish laugh.gif
PS(2): Here's a screenshot of the problem. As you might see, some files
show the cover art (older ones) but some files not (newer with covers attached too!)

It only means it can't find the album art of the songs.

hm.. i'm having some kind of same problems... my *.avi videos don't show previews any more. mp3s and pictures (bmp, jpeg, gif, ...) work fine... I KNOW that avis USED TO work but now it stopped. i got divx installed and the videos play fine in wmp.

could the problem be connected to that my live folders previews dont work; i mean windows explorer doesnt show the contents of the folders in preview (see this pic: http://www.microsoft.com/library/media/103...dliveicons.jpg) or may be thats just another problem...

aprreciate any help guys

This problem is codec related
It seems you are using winamp to play most your files and if so, winamp doesn't have the same charachteristics than wmp11 for thumbnails etc...
I Can advice you to right click on one of your files, select to "open with", choose open with wmp11 and make sure the box that says "apply to all media" is checked.
You will than see if you get thumbnails for everything, than it means that winamp is the troubleshooter.

I can also advice to uninstall any codec you installed previuosly and only install one single codec pack , such as the K-lite all in one package, which has done the job for me for a long time.

You will find the K-lite here: http://www.free-codecs.com/K_Lite_Codec_Pack_download.htm

Hope it helps
Regards
SFkilla

As SFkilla suggested, it's a codec problem. However, I doubt it's a Winamp problem. Do you by chance have Nero installed?

Well at first; the problem doesn't seem to be connected to the open-with-thing. All *.avi's are and always have been associated with WMP. Nevertheless, I do have Winamp, Nero and VLC Media Player installed... I did not install any codec packs; only the normal DivX distribution from DivX.com...
Should I still try to uninstall DivX or Nero or something else?

Is it just the one folder or is it all folders?

I've run into the same problem with Nero. Many other have as well. Unfortunately, uninstalling Nero didn't fix the problem for me. I looked around and couldn't find a solution. I tried reinstalling the codec pack that I use after removing Nero and that still didn't help. I ended up reinstalling Vista. Good luck with this problem. If you, or anyone can find a fix for this let us know.

I'd say it's an association problem technically, in that XP let you choose whatever program you like but gave you extra control to overwrite the icon independently allowing Winamp + Thumbnails. As in their infinite wisdom MS decided to remove this functionality you'll probably have to set it to WMP11 to get them back OR find a third party tool.

I have a similar problem using MPC for videos.

p.s - You re-installed Vista just to get thumbnails??? Wow that's overkill.

As I said before, I can almost guarantee that the problem here is not Winamp, but almost definitely Nero. Secondly, yeah I reinstalled Windows, but my installation was only 2 days old. Lastly, the problem was more than just thumbnails. All of the media functionality built into Explorer was screwed up too. Not overkill at all.

on my laptop, thumbnails work fine....klite codec pack full, and nero ultra edition

but on my desktop, no thumbnails, same software installed

Interesting. That does put a little twist on this. Out of curiosity, what version(s) of Nero are you using?

Hi..I'm having the same problem..Lately any new avi. files don't have the preview thumbnail. Its not a big deal, but it does somewhat ruin the aesthetic..I don't have nero, and the only codec pack i have is the K-Lite mega pack!!

Here's a pic to show!!

i don't know if thats really codec-related. had the same problem some time ago with my .pdf files and got it fixed by changing the default program for pdf files, apply, then changed it back to adobe reader again and after that i had thumbnails on every pdf file again.