All the versions of Windows starting from Windows XP have the ability to display the thumbnails of many different file types, especially the media file types. You can change the settings in Windows File Explorer to display the thumbnails of these media files. But File Explorer cannot display the thumbnails of all the media files if proper video codecs are not installed. To work around this problem, you can either install media codec packs like K-Lite Mega Codec pack or you can use Icaros.
Icaros is a simple utility that not only enables the thumbnails in Windows File Explorer for a number of media files, but it also allows some special features for the video files. It is available both as a setup installer package and as a portable program. In both cases, you have to launch the IcarosConfig.exe program to enable and customize the thumbnails.
In the Icaros Config window, you can click on the Deactivated under various features to activate them. For example, you can enable thumbnails for a set of file types by clicking on Deactivated under the Thumbnailing and turning the status into Activated. You can also set the file types for which thumbnails should be activated in this window.
Other options that you can choose from the options for thumbnailing include detection of black or white frames inside the video files, overlaying of file icons over the thumbnails, displaying movie reel on the sides of thumbnails of video files, use of embedded cover art and more.
You can also enable properties for the selected file types which allows you to view media properties for those files in the File Explorer such that the length, width, height, artists and so on. Furthermore, Icaros can also use its internal cache for caching the thumbnails and keep them in case Windows File Explorer loses them.
You can download Icaros from http://shark007.net/tools.html.
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For the longest time I've had image related issues in windows 10, the first i noticed was the task bar. For some reason the windows store apps pinned to the task bar were broken, displaying low res black and white icons or just white squares.
Then i also couldn't use the windows photo's app at all, multiple images would not display thumbs and several features seemed broken like auto adjusting pictures and some odd scaling issues where an image would stretch to fill the space.
I also had issues with the right click menu not loading properly which i thought was unrelated but seems to be because of icons that were loaded being glitchy.
Because of these problems i reset my pc, and while some were mitigated or mostly gone things like taskbar icons and the photo's app still didn't work properly. I thought windows was just still glitchy.
Today i decided to properly look it up online for a few hours cause I realized by now someone had to have a solution since many updates didn't fix it. I found sagethumbs might be the culprit based on a forum on neowin.
which this solution worked for me after uninstalling sagethumb.
So i don't know if this was a well known problem but so far it has't been fixed and it's been this long post launch. After uninstalling a LOT of problems went away beyond what I listed above.
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The taskbar issue was fixed by disabling png support in sage thumb but other problems persisted.
I mainly had it installed for psd thumbnails, does anyone know of any alternatives that are more lightweight and unlikely to cause problems?
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