Windows 11: Thumbnail previews do not show on folders

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My folders are appearing as blank folder icons, where in Win 10 they showed thumbnail previews of the contents.

I've searched online for answers, and most appear to apply to earlier versions, and tell me to uncheck the 'icon only, no thumbnail' choice in View|Options, but that is already unchecked, so that is not the answer.

Does anyone have an actual working answer? Thanks if you do!

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The Windows 11 2022 update brings Thumbnail previews to folders.

Windows 11 2022 update now available - Microsoft Community

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Anonymous

2022-02-14T17:39:30+00:00

Windows Key + F doesn't work.
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Anonymous

2022-02-14T02:14:15+00:00

everytime windows does an upgrade it's worse than before. this really sucks!!! it seems to me their engineers are bankrupt and go for change just for the sake of change even if it makes one's life harder. if it ain't broken don't fix it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Anonymous

Hey Jay,

   I don't think this is a bug, if it was a bug MS would have caught it. There are so many people with the same issue, and as the way everyone is talking about it, there is no way we can fix this problem. Microsoft has to do something about this, so much time is wasted "hunting down" something we need right away with our projects. Time that could be put to useful engineering and not looking through piles of folders.

  I don't use OneDive, I keep everything I work private and accessible via offline.

I really hope MS supplies us with some kind of update soon

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2022-02-10T19:40:37+00:00

Does anyone know if this is a known "bug"? Like many others it is extremely hard to conceive that this would be a feature intentionally removed.

Windows 11 was a major upgrade to the UI and it very easy to see some last-minute bugs were found, or not noticed at release. If it was known it is perfectly reasonable, they would not delay the release. That is what I would have done. I know, "in something as fundamental as folder icons.." But yes, I think it could be.

There is another issue that is mostly certainly a bug if you have noticed. You can't put the taskbar anywhere but on the bottom of the screen. It is most definitely a bug because you can go into the registry and change a value and you can move it anywhere.

However, when you move it, the bar does move but no icons on it. Same thing in as in other threas. A lot of cursing and moaning and vilifying MS.

I now, hard to believe they would miss that. Does not make MS look good. But I work in software and have seen innocuous things like this happen.

I just wish MS would publish errata with a release. But they may and I have nowhere to find it so that is why I'm asking. But they certainly quash a lot of user's frustration by publishing explanations.

They do say, if you provide you contact when you submit the will get back to you with information.

Jay

By the way as another example that everyone should be aware of. I think it is a complete oversight. If you use OneDrive you can lose files permanently if you use files on demand feature. I lost some important work. They broke the fundamental model of the recycle bin by doing you the favor of deleting files over 30 days old.

You can't turn it off.

Here is a link to that issue. I know nothing to do with this thread, but I think this is a serious, serious issues and I want to get as many people to tell them as possible: Enhancement Request: Have Recycle bin use my own disk allocation - Microsoft Community
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