Comments on: How to Enable or Disable Media and Video Thumbnail Preview in Windows XP

By: puza

puza — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:37:13 +0000

TY dude

By: Destiny

Destiny — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:30:59 +0000

Yaaaaay! The command worked! Thank you so very much

By: Yash

Yash — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:27:46 +0000

Thanks….yes it re-enabled by thumbnails…Many thanks!!!

By: Nima

Nima — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:43:48 +0000

Thanks!…It Works!

By: alay

alay — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:37:02 +0000

Another question, sounds stupid but this is serious..

Anyone knows how to disable/block/lock multimedia playback on xp?

By: flight23

flight23 — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 05:19:45 +0000

I am having trouble finding ways how to fix my video thumbnails. Thank you for this one. Just placed the “regsvr32 shmedia.dll” command and all my video thumbnails appear.

By: Andre

Andre — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:48:38 +0000

Very helpful indeed…before using this, the thumbnails previews use up lots of ram, and sometimes the windows explorer freezes right there. It really pisses me off.
But hey thanks to this article….problem solved…

By: bahram

bahram — Wed, 27 May 2009 10:46:15 +0000

Any idea if it also works with XP 64bit? It doesn’t seem to work for me.

By: Amit

Amit — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 11:27:42 +0000

Thanks, the command worked.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:49:21 +0000

regsvr32 shmedia.dll did the trick. Thanks

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Folder hangs????? - Page 2 - Big Cricket Forum — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:47:54 +0000

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By: Liam

Liam — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:05:18 +0000

Very helpfull thanks

By: Rohan

Rohan — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:49:22 +0000

Can someone plzzzzzz tell me for vista I need to get thumbnail preview BADLY for my Vista ultimate 32.

see the screen shot here:

http://www.tinypic.ws/files/g8fjcm5nty9ifrdpi5iz.jpg

Anyone for vista??

By: Alyssa

Alyssa — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:46:10 +0000

Hi!
This worked with all my .avi files but I’m unable to disable my MPEG-4 movies preview… Is there any other command I could use?
Thanks in advance

By: Hugh from UK Britain

Hugh from UK Britain — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:27:52 +0000

I lost my ‘wmv’ thumbnail preview, but used regsvr /u shmedia dll to turn all displays off, then used regsvr 32 shmedia dll to turn all back on, and its All ok now. I was using K- lite mega codec-pack which didnt solve the prob(may have contributed) but this did. Thanks, much appreciated.

By: Michel from Belgium

Michel from Belgium — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:10:29 +0000

Lost my movie thumbnails, got them back thanks to you !

THANKS !!!