Thumbnails won't show up in Windows Explorer windows

Hey guys,

I'm sure someone here has an easy answer for me.

Ever since building my Win8.1SE, I've never been able to get thumbnails to work reliably.  When a folder is first loaded I will see the images pop up very briefly before they are overwritten with the stock image icon thereafter.  Any ideas what it was I broke?

Thanks!

Since this is PE and NOT a Full Windows Enviroment...

The Picture needs to be opened with an .exe, thus the exe icon...

Eh?  Sorry for asking for clarification -- but are you saying that thumbnails within Windows Explorer never show in WinPE?

That's fine if that's the case; I've replaced the standard Explorer browser windows with a third-party program anyway now (XYplorer) -- however it would just be nice if I could find a way to make the standard browser windows work as well.

Thanks at any rate for the reply. :)

-- however it would just be nice if I could find a way to make the standard browser windows work as well.

Let us know if you figure out.

Apps\Debug\"Sysinternals Process Monitor (Procmon)"
would help, further spending time ....

An idea, enable these plugins :
Components\DirectX
Components\Ms Viewer

than use Procmon and observe what happens when you select thumbnail on Explorer ....

Good Luck.

Thanks guys, I might troubleshoot, and if I do I will report back with results.

In running Win10PESE - show thumbnails:
I used Enable_Explorer_Thumbnails_All_Users.reg from http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/11738-thumbnail-previews-enable-disable.html
Explorer / properties of a choosen folder: View large or extra large symbols.
Maybe The Reg code is an idea for script addition.

just an update:

to get registry settings to enable / disable thumbnails,
\Downloads\ComponentsY\Tweaks\Tweak Visual Effects

plugin available for a while.