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

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Sumit 44,306 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
    2022-01-13T06:44:14+00:00

    And this worked for you on Windows 11 ?

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-01-13T12:28:30+00:00

    I'm seeing that it's a problem for the pics in my drop-box folder, not my MS One Drive... So... that leads me to believe that MS is making it a pain to use DropBox and driving business away from it....  If that's the case, it's probably an unfair business practice...

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-01-13T13:46:31+00:00

    I'm in the same boat, I'm a graphic designer/photographer and this change to the folder preview is crippling - I can't understand their thinking. That video only shows how to turn on icon thumbnails - it doesn't enable the preview thumbnails on the folder which is what we're looking for.

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