

If it is checked, go ahead and uncheck it.ġ.3. Make sure that the checkbox next to ‘Always show icons, never thumbnails’ is unchecked.

Open any folder in and click ALT+T on the keyboard, then select ‘Folder Options’ġ.2. Check Windows Explorer Settings to see if thumbnails are disabledġ.1. Note that this article was made on Windows 7, but the info presented here should work on Vista and Windows 8 as well. If these don’t work, try the third option, which involves using a simple freeware that most certainly will get the job done. The first two involve changing interacting with Windows, without installing any software. We suggest that you try the following three interventions in order. We promise that your thumbnails will be back, without necessarily having to uninstall the offending application that may have been responsible and without trying to undo any event that you may have introduced that caused the thumbnails to disappear.

The good news: this post will suggest three different ways to fix it. If this happens to you you know it can be quite frustrating, especially if you are unsure as to what might have caused it in the first place. This happened to me: I installed a new image-related freeware to test it, and all of my image thumbnail previews disappeared, to be replaced by icons.
