Re: Video thumbnail preview picture not showing

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Hello, I have had this problem and took my computer in to get fixed.

The simple fix they seemed to use in my case was to change the open
with default to Quicktime player and then change the default back to
Windows Media Player. I hope this info may be of use.

To do this
1) right click on the file thumbnail,
2) select "choose default programme"
(note: at this point _don't_ just select open with "quicktime player"
as this will only immediately open the file and won't change the preview
thumbnail, make sure you use choose default programme option).
3) on the next screen select Quicktime player.

Hopefully the thumbnail previews will now appear.

Now repeat the procedure to change back to windows media player as the
default, i.e.,

4) right click on the file thumbnail
5) select "choose default programme"
6) on the next screen select the Windows media player.

This re-set my thumbnail previews to work. Hopefully something similar
may work on your computer.

(Note, perhaps I could have simply done steps 4 to 6 (without steps 1
to 3). Its done now so I can't repeat it.

I'm afraid I'm not a techie so I can't say anything about codecs or the
registry which are too hard for me.

Hope this helps.


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mb123
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