Video Thumbnails Disappeared/Not Showing Up

I'm not sure how or when this happened but the thumbnails on my video files
are not showing up. I go into my folder where my videos are, I go to the
toolbar click view then click on thumbnails and I used to get a picture of
the videos but now they have disappeared. Can anyone help me with this? I am
using windows XP Home edition and I have my videos stored on E drive.

On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 07:52:01 -0800, Frank
<Frank@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I'm not sure how or when this happened but the thumbnails on my video files
>are not showing up. I go into my folder where my videos are, I go to the
>toolbar click view then click on thumbnails and I used to get a picture of
>the videos but now they have disappeared. Can anyone help me with this? I am
>using windows XP Home edition and I have my videos stored on E drive.


Directly next to the Search box in media player 11 is a small dropdown
menu button. To show video thumbnails, click that, and set it to Icon
or Tile view, instead of Details view.

HTH
Cheers - Neil
------------------------------------------------
Digital Media MVP : 2004-2008
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs

The Icon button is grayed out, it won't let me click on it. Any other
suggestions?

"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" wrote:

> On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 07:52:01 -0800, Frank
> <Frank@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >I'm not sure how or when this happened but the thumbnails on my video files
> >are not showing up. I go into my folder where my videos are, I go to the
> >toolbar click view then click on thumbnails and I used to get a picture of
> >the videos but now they have disappeared. Can anyone help me with this? I am
> >using windows XP Home edition and I have my videos stored on E drive.
>
>
> Directly next to the Search box in media player 11 is a small dropdown
> menu button. To show video thumbnails, click that, and set it to Icon
> or Tile view, instead of Details view.
>
> HTH
> Cheers - Neil
> ------------------------------------------------
> Digital Media MVP : 2004-2008
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs
>

I just found out what you mean and did it but that works for media player 11,
that did not help the videos in my file folders like when you show the
thumbnails for jpg and bmp it shows the picture in the folder.

"Frank" wrote:

> The Icon button is grayed out, it won't let me click on it. Any other
> suggestions?
>
> "Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 07:52:01 -0800, Frank
> > <Frank@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> >
> > >I'm not sure how or when this happened but the thumbnails on my video files
> > >are not showing up. I go into my folder where my videos are, I go to the
> > >toolbar click view then click on thumbnails and I used to get a picture of
> > >the videos but now they have disappeared. Can anyone help me with this? I am
> > >using windows XP Home edition and I have my videos stored on E drive.
> >
> >
> > Directly next to the Search box in media player 11 is a small dropdown
> > menu button. To show video thumbnails, click that, and set it to Icon
> > or Tile view, instead of Details view.
> >
> > HTH
> > Cheers - Neil
> > ------------------------------------------------
> > Digital Media MVP : 2004-2008
> > http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs
> >

[Fantazim68]

Man this is what he meant to fix the problem that he is having has nothing to do with media player........


To resolve the problem, type the following command in Start, Run dialog:

REGSVR32 SHMEDIA.DLL

Thumbnail images for videos should now generate correctly. If that does not help, inspect the file association settings.

[mgbannister]

I have a similar issue. My problem started when I installed a video converter.

When opening the program, a window appeared asking me if I wanted to use a certain application to view video thumbnails. I thought this was a program related to the video converter. I selected the “no, never use this” and also selected the “don’t ask me again” box. Well apparently this was a Windows application and now my WinXP Home (sp3) won’t generate any video thumbnails.

I have run the command line from the previous post and still nothing. I get the icons and in some video icons I get a black box where previously I had the video picure.

I was hoping you may have received this question before and you may be able to help me. Do you know what this application is called? Do you know how I can reset it?

[sachtechboy]

Thanks a lot "" Fantazim68 ""

the command regsvr32 shmedia.dll worked !!!!