Not thumbnails but... thin vertical lines? (Halp!)

-"I having a problem with thumbnails not showing up... The thumbnails
are just thin stripes as oppose[d] to actual, you know, thumbnail
images."-

That's the only reference I have managed to dig up so far in the wide
world of the Web (from 'this page'
( http://www.**--****.com/ )).
The reply from the technical expert read, in part: 

-"Man... The problem youe having sounds very strange.."-

It appears I'm facing a problem that is so unusual,  I could be a
candidate for Ripley's Believe It or Not, if only Ripley's feature was
still around. Maybe it is. 

It's not that all of my image files refuse to show up as thumbnails.
But a good too many appear as thin vertical lines, in their folders.
(Yet they open up functionally in the usual applications). Ahhh, Vista,
Vista, Vista.

So now you're getting the picture as to why I am reaching out to you,
maybe a bit too embarrassingly. (How fast we can sink while desperate.
It's not pretty.) If you know what the heck is going on here, perhaps
you'd be kind enough to give a feller a helping hand.

Mercy. I mean, merci.


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jugularity

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Maybe it would be worth a try to clear your
thumbnail cache...have a look at the following
article:

How to clear the thumbnail
cache in Windows Vista
 http://www.**--****.com/ 
   or...
 http://www.**--****.com/ 

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    John Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

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This is not tech support
      I am a volunteer

 Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk 

Thank you very much John..! I tried your suggestion happily but, alas,
it failed to do the trick. I'm much obliged for you to have taken the
time to help.


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jugularity

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My next guess would be that your
video driver may need an update.

As a test...you could try reducing
your Graphics Hardware Acceleration
and if an improvement is realized...
you definitely need to update your
video driver.

"No guarantees and proceed at your own risk."

Windows Vista -
How To Reduce Graphics
Hardware Acceleration

1. Click Start, type personalization
in the Start Search box, and then
click Personalization in the Programs
list.

2. Click Display Settings.

3. Click Advanced Settings.

4. Click the Troubleshooting tab, and
then drag the Hardware Acceleration
slider to the left until it is one notch to
the right of None (the Basic acceleration
setting).

5. Click OK, and then click Close.

6. If you are prompted to restart the
computer, click Yes.

If the problem is improved...reinstall/
update your video driver. If the problem
is not improved...return the acceleration
to Full and seek a different solution.

Good luck.

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    John Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

            Notice
This is not tech support
      I am a volunteer

 Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk 

Thank you again for generously helping. And I'm impressed you managed to
dig up such a solution; you really know your way around these nuts and
bolts.

I also appreciated your impeccably spelled out directions.

A "Change Settings" button appeared in the "Troubleshoot" tab, but it
was grayed out. A message followed: "Your current display driver does
not allow changes to be made to hardware acceleration settings."

So that's what running into a brick wall feels like.

Grazi once more, John.


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jugularity

Hi jugularity,

I have seen this type of error with image files (.jpg), that have been
transferred from an XP system.

It normally does not affect all files just a small proportion
:confused:. and is caused by the horizontal and vertical resolution
becoming confused. normally opening the files will show them normally.
If you load and save them with an application that displayes them
correctly that will normally cure the problem.

To check if this is the cause I use Irfanview to open an affected file
and on the info screen it shows the DPI on a normal file this will show
as 100(%) X 100(%) I have seen figures in affected files of 11000 in the
vertical field.

'IrfanView - Official Homepage - one of the most popular viewers
worldwide' ( http://www.**--****.com/ )

Hope this helps


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barman58

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This is a definite indication that you need
to update your video driver.

Go to the support website of your video
adapter's mfg. and search for Vista
compatible drivers.

If you don't know the make and model of
your video adapter...check the documentation
that came with the computer.

Also you could try these steps...
Go to...Start / Run...type...
msinfo32    ...press enter.

On the System Information screen...choose...
Components / Display...

You should find the make and model of your
display adapter as well as the driver version.

If the driver on the support website is more
current than the one you are running...
download it and install it. Also you should find
and follow the installation instructions at the
support site.

Once the driver is updated...return your acceleration
to Full.

-- 

    John Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

            Notice
This is not tech support
      I am a volunteer

 Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk 

Hey all,

I've been having this problem too. It doesn't affect a great number of
my pictures, but it's just enough to be annoying. I suspect it has much
to do with what barman has said, since I've transferred all of my
current pictures from an XP laptop, and it never had any problems
opening them. They open fine, but the preview will be an extremely thin
version of the picture.

In Infranview, the DPI for most of the pictures, whilst not 11000,
isn't 100x100. Instead, it's 72 horizontally, with no number in the
vertical field.


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It normally does not affect all files just a small proportion
and is caused by the horizontal and vertical resolution
becoming confused. normally opening the files will show them normally.
If you load and save them with an application that displayes them
correctly that will normally cure the problem.
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illam;1575436 Wrote: 

This works as a solution. If you open them up in infranview, change the
DPI to 100x100, and then re-save them, they'll open up again fine.

And yes, it only happens with a small proportion of pictures, but it's
enough to get annoying at times.


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