Display of images in Vista as Thumbnails

[rjchaney]

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

[dean-dean]

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]

Thanks a lot. That works!!