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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Sumit 44,306 Volunteer Moderator

The Windows 11 2022 update brings Thumbnail previews to folders.

Windows 11 2022 update now available - Microsoft Community

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DaveM121 930.8K Reputation points Independent Advisor

2021-11-28T18:38:09+00:00

Hi Paul,

I am Dave, I will help you with this.

Currently Windows 11 does not support showing thumbnails on folders, like previous versions of Windows.

The best option is to open the Feedback Hub (Windows Key + F) and provide your feedback on this lack of functionality in Windows 11, to the developers, the more people that look for a feature, the more likely it is to be added.
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