Aug 6

Thumbnails in Windows Explorer

Server 2008 R2 Workstation , , , Add Comment (2)

Previews of media files are disabled by default in Windows Server 2008 R2. In this article we will enable it so we get these thumbnails back again!

To do this open Windows Explorer and press the left Alt key on your keyboard. Now click Folder options in the Tools menu and go to the View tab. Uncheck the Always show icons, never thumbnails checkbox and click OK or Apply to start having thumbnails for media files.
Uncheck "Always show icons, never thumbnails" in Folder Options

 

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2 comments so far...

  • Shahed26 Said on September 28th, 2009 at 11:20 pm:

    Video Thumbnails for “MPG”, “MTS” dont work. Anybody has any workaround? Tried installing klite codec pack as well, but still did not work.

  • kurian Said on March 14th, 2010 at 1:21 am:

    This doesn’t work for video thumbnails.

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