Another silly windows 7 question - thumbnails?

[Rerednaw]

According to Windows 7 Help you open Pictures and select icons.

Well I get big icons...of the generic windows picture not an actual thumbnail.

Nothing else under microsoft help addresses this?

What is the help file not telling me?

Using 'preview' previews the entire image, one at a time, I cannot get a thumbnail view of the directory that actually shows real thumbnails.

I know it's something stupid...with windows it usually is...

Please help and thanks!

 

[Devilpapaya]

My computer (running win7 pro x64) shows thumbnails under large icons. What type of image file is it? Windows may not be able to display thumbnails of certain image types.

Edit: There's also a button on the top right of explorer (under the red x, to the left of the help button) that "enables preview pane" which brings up a larger thumbnail on the side, a lot like the filmstrip(?) mode in previous windows editions. Might check that out see if that works.

 

[gaidensensei]

What file extension are you trying to preview? Should work fine for JPG/GIF/BMP types under 7 by default.

This is the icon you want to select to toggle between folder content display properties, you can only get thumbnails from medium to extra large. The Preview Pane toggle is the button to the right of it.

 

[Rerednaw]

They are standard jpg/bmp/etc... images. I'll take a screenshot and post when I get a chance.

So this is how windows show all the thumbnails:

I found it: it's under control panel advanced settings!