Picture/Photo/Image ThumbNail Previews not showing in Windows 7 [Solved]

I recently changed by Theme in Windows 7 with a whole lot of other settings, when I clicked the option for better Performance in system properties window. This changed by default Aero theme to Win 2000 kind of theme. Later, I restored back to Aero theme, upon which I faced this problem. The thumbnail previews of pictures/photos in the Windows Explorer, seemed to disappear after making this change. I tried a few troubleshooting steps and soon became numb with trying. So I google-d for a solution and finally reached to this page.

http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vistapictures/thread/f0c429b7-d7dd-4535-a8e7-c3f5e8c42939

Though some of the users, couldn’t find a solution to this problem in the forum post, many users did find the solution.

Here is a screenshot, when the images/photos/pictures thumbnail previews don’t show up in your Windows Explorer/Pictures library.

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Generally you’ve the feeling you might have messed up something or some virus cropped up or there are some errors to your Window 7 installation. But the solutions are very simple. You can try any of these 3 methods for reaching the desired solution, which will help you in troubleshooting the thumbnails previews not working properly.

Method 1:

1. Open your Windows Explorer.
2. From the menu, Organize > Folder and Search Options
3. This will pop-up the Folder Options  window.
4. Click the View tab.
5. Uncheck the following option, if it’s checked.

www.techlikes.com-always-show-icon-never-thumbnails

Always show icons, never thumbnails

6. Click on Apply.
7. Click on OK.