Windows 7 Preview Pane not working

Here you go,

In Windows Explorer, click Organize / Folder and Search options / View Tab.

Remove the Check Mark from the Always show Icons never Thumbnails option.

Click Apply / OK.

Regards

OK, I hate to toss a wrench into your happy party, but none of the solutions here offered have worked for me. I've tried the removing check mark from the "always show icons never thumbnails" option and it does not work. 

I'm having the problem only with pdf files. everything else previews OK.

Before you tell me to go to Adobe and install latest version of Reader, I've already done that, and it does nothing for me.

I can open the pdf files. I used to be able to see a small preview on the thumbnails, and when I selected them in explorer, I could preview them in the preview pane - even scroll through the document pages.

Now, none of that works for pdfs.

Please don't give me one of those idiotic answers that assumes I am an idiot and haven't tried anything.

Really useful, thanks

I have never found the Microsoft Community to be of any help. I try to submit my question(s) as concise and clear as possible, but find the replies are for a problem other than the one I'm inquiring about.

I am unsubscribing because there is an assumption on Microsoft's part that I haven't tried all the recommendations and am repeatedly told to go to the original answer - which has nothing to do with my question! The response time is terrible, talking months to even get an acknowledgement or answer. Most of all, it's the condescending attitude that pervades the interaction that implies that I am dimwitted.

This doesn't work you simple-minded piece of rectal sputum. That box is already unticked.