Windows 11: Thumbnail previews do not show on folders

Anonymous
2021-11-28T18:05:14+00:00

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!

.....ph

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Files, folders, and storage

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Sumit 44,316 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
2022-02-17T07:04:33+00:00

The Windows 11 2022 update brings Thumbnail previews to folders.

Windows 11 2022 update now available - Microsoft Community

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-02-05T13:50:50+00:00

    What you're describing is what happens to thumbnail previews when you're low on disk space. When disk space is low windows isn't able to generate thumbnails. The issue we're describing here is, there are no longer thumbnail previews on folders in Windows 11; folders are now just the generic folder icon without any way of knowing whats inside of them.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-02-05T13:05:39+00:00

    I am talking about folders, previes on folders itself

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-02-05T09:29:32+00:00

    I was having the same problem after I updated from Windows 10 to 11. My file explorer would briefly show my photos' thumbnails then they would immediately disappear and be blank. What fixed it was pressing the windows key, searching for storage settings, then deleting the old versions of Windows (18 gb worth). Now the thumbnails are showing up.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-02-03T05:05:28+00:00

    Done that , Thanks

    Windows 11: Thumbnail previews do not show on folders, kindly fix it in next Update , thanks

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