Thumbnails no longer displayed in XP folders containing photos and videos

feival

For some reason on my XP PC the folders containing photos or videos no longer display thumbnails of the files even though that is the display type I have selected. Can anyone think what may have happened?

TheImportanceOfBeingIdle

Are you sure that you have selected the thumbnail option in 'view' on the menu bar?

feival

I need to be more specific. In fact all photos are ok. It is the Divx films that are suffixed .avi that no longer show the first frame - they used to though.

xio

Sounds like the shmedia.dll has somehow become un-registered. It handles previewing of video thumbnails in folders.

The following will re-register the .dll, but be warned - there is a known issue that causes explorer to sometimes crash when attempting to display DivX or XviD thumbnails - so it may be disabled for a reason, depending what codecs you installed.

Start > Run

To enable it type regsvr32 shmedia.dll

If you have the problem with explorer crashing, simply disable the dll again.

To disable the .dll type regsvr32 /u shmedia.dll

If this is the case, then getting it to work properly can be a major pain, there's no easy workaround (that I've found) and you may have to live with the problem. Other suggestions would be to try uninstalling any codecs and/or codec packs you have and look into ffdshow (not guaranteed to solve the problem!)

Poppycat

As xio I try that first its often fixed it for me. Sometiems re-installing the codecs worked I had this problem a couple fo days abck just reinstalled XViD codec, I dont use multi codecs packs