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
    2022-02-07T15:56:33+00:00

    Yeah it's one of the most idiotic and most importantly -Completely Unnecessary- changes. How do they not understand that people essentially use the thumbanail preview as the folder name. I literally have 100's of yellow folders that I have no idea whats inside of them now.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-02-07T19:12:23+00:00

    ME TOO

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-02-08T01:10:37+00:00

    Hi,

    I want to remind everyone on this thread that these are not MS employs at this site. They are MVP's who volunteers to provide support, not necessarily enhancement requests. This is what I was told on another forum topic.

    That moderator gave me the following place to put in bug and enhancement requests. He said this is "beta" put working. Knowing some developers at MS I know that this is data that will in one form of another get to the development.

    There is also a new web based “Feedback Portal” in development. It is still labelled “Preview”. It provides functionality similar to the feedback hub. Access to feedbacks submitted in 34 categories. https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/

    I really hope everyone with this issue uses this to lodge this issue. I think we some many of us it will get attention and cannot be difficult to restore.

    Even if this sites info is going back it won't hurt to double it.

    He also first provides the following ling to the following ARTICLE on where to submit feedback. As you can image needed an article to describe the process sort of implies it is not good and maybe why the new one.

    https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/microsoft-feedback-process/6f850368-8c86-481d-a207-d95b265c4be4

    Jay

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-02-08T01:19:46+00:00

    I am sorry, I made a mistake. That site seems to apply only to applications. Onedrive was my problem.

    Looks like the best solution is to simply use the feedback hub in windows 10. Hit Win-key feed...

    Honestly, I never knew that feature was there. I'm going to read the rest of that article and see if there are other places. Again, the more the better.

    Oh, the moderator on my other thread also recommended taking it to social media. Maybe we can make it go viral.

    PS: also be publicly vocal about your complaints.  Post on social mediahttps://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/industry-blog/microsoft-in-business/media-comm/2017/04/18/microsoft-uses-social-media-create-customer-experience/ .

    Facebook

    https://www.facebook.com/pg/Microsoft365/posts/

    Let's get this fixed...

    Jay

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