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Well surprisingly it didn't do the trick. I still see the cone icon. I was able to reset the extension as well and still no thumbnail. I am literally out of options.

The thumbnails aren't generated by VLC. Try this -> http://www.coolmegabytes.com/video-thumbnail-windows-explorer-flv-3gp-mkv-webm-preview/ or install a codec pack (not reccomended IMHO). Sure, perhaps VLC doesn't generate it, but associating it should have. The files open just fine and using a thu...

So I recently installed VLC for the first time on a rather clean install of Windows 8. My primary intention was to playback FLV and MKV videos. unfortunately, because I had attempted to open them in WMP once, they got a default WMP icon. Upon having VLC open those video types by default, I only get ...