Display of images in Vista as Thumbnails

I am using Vista Home Premium Edition, and I am unable to display images as
thumbnails. I saw a couple of threads that offered the following suggestions:

Run: regsvr32 %systemroot%\system32\shimgvw.dll
or:
Run: REGSVR32 SHIMGVW.DLL

My system responded that "The module "c:\Windows\system32\shimgvw.dll" was
loaded but the entry-point DllRegisterServer was not found.

I can't locate this file anywhere on my computer. I'm wondering if the
installation was corrupted and I have to start all over, or can I find this
file somewhere and add it?

RChaney

It appears that you have shimgvw.dll, or you would see "shimgvw.dll failed
to load" and "the specified module could not be found" when running the
command. Look again in C:\Windows\system32.

Try this. In order for the icon to show a preview, in Control Panel> Folder
Options, on the View tab under Advanced settings, "Always show icons, never
thumbnails" must be unchecked.


"rjchaney" <rjchaney@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:11522648-508B-46E0-A352-9DE911873D78@microsoft.com...
>I am using Vista Home Premium Edition, and I am unable to display images as
> thumbnails. I saw a couple of threads that offered the following
> suggestions:
>
> Run: regsvr32 %systemroot%\system32\shimgvw.dll
> or:
> Run: REGSVR32 SHIMGVW.DLL
>
> My system responded that "The module "c:\Windows\system32\shimgvw.dll" was
> loaded but the entry-point DllRegisterServer was not found.
>
> I can't locate this file anywhere on my computer. I'm wondering if the
> installation was corrupted and I have to start all over, or can I find
> this
> file somewhere and add it?
>
> RChaney

Thanks a lot. That works!!

"dean-dean" wrote:

> It appears that you have shimgvw.dll, or you would see "shimgvw.dll failed
> to load" and "the specified module could not be found" when running the
> command. Look again in C:\Windows\system32.
>
> Try this. In order for the icon to show a preview, in Control Panel> Folder
> Options, on the View tab under Advanced settings, "Always show icons, never
> thumbnails" must be unchecked.
>
>
> "rjchaney" <rjchaney@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:11522648-508B-46E0-A352-9DE911873D78@microsoft.com...
> >I am using Vista Home Premium Edition, and I am unable to display images as
> > thumbnails. I saw a couple of threads that offered the following
> > suggestions:
> >
> > Run: regsvr32 %systemroot%\system32\shimgvw.dll
> > or:
> > Run: REGSVR32 SHIMGVW.DLL
> >
> > My system responded that "The module "c:\Windows\system32\shimgvw.dll" was
> > loaded but the entry-point DllRegisterServer was not found.
> >
> > I can't locate this file anywhere on my computer. I'm wondering if the
> > installation was corrupted and I have to start all over, or can I find
> > this
> > file somewhere and add it?
> >
> > RChaney
>