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just as i expected, vista codec pack generally makes new previews, but not for avi files, and everything is back to the shits. it really seems that vlc left its footprints in the system, even after uninstalling and registry cleaning. i just installed the regular xvid decoder as well, hoping that it ...

actually, your problem really just looks like mine, still i am not able to figure it out. i just installed a clean version of vista ultimate x64, installed vista codec pack and vlc, and no thumbnails!!! at least not for xvid files, which appears to be the majority of my files. there were few preview...

did that, except for the disk cleanup, because that would take me all my thumbnails, and as long as i don't find a solution for my problem, i don't want to lose the ones i got. thumbnails are shown for nearly all videos, as i said before, just when new videos are added, there are no thumbnails gener...

first of all, as mentioned, i use vista and not xp, secondly, i didn't change a thing in the system settings and since all the "older" videos have thumbnails and pictures have them, too, i am pretty sure, my system is capable of handling, generating and showing thumbnails, but it is exactl...

so, first i disabled the file associations in vlc, no improvement then, when explorer didn't know, how to open avi, i said, wmp as standard, didn't improve, then i went to control panel, standard programs and set all the 70 standards to wmp11, meaning all file types, still no improvement but wmp pla...

after vlc 0.9.8a disabled my vista from generating thumbnails on new videos, i didn't find any other solution but to start from scratch and have a clean start-over with my system, after reinstalling vista32 and installing vista codec pack, all the videos on my external hd got proper thumbnails again...