Explorer image thumbnails are grey/incomplete/partial
- by Craig620
I have recently noticed a problem on my Win7 x64 Home machine. When navigating the pictures library, I run across a fair amount of thumbnails that are grey and only partially rendered. This is not not the absence of thumbnails caused by "always show icons, never thumbnails" checkbox, and is a local drive, have seen many other posts for those issues...
I've run cleanmgr for thumbnails, and also manually deleted the .db files from %LOCALAPPADAT%\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer.
That did actually fix one thumbnail once (while preparing this post) but in general it doesn't work.
Why do specialized imaging programs not have this problem, but Explorer does? How do you fix Explorer? It's very annoying!