Thumbnail View capability missing from Win 2000 Explorer.

[Guest baobob@my-deja.com]

I have two PCs, both running W2K Build 2195 (i.e. SP4 or whatever).

 

On one PC, Win Explorer behaves fine:

 

- Menu item "View" lists Large Icons, Small Icons, List, Details, and

Thumbnails.

- Selecting Thumbnail works just fine: thumbs.db gets created and .JPG

file entries display TNs.

- IE 5.5 is installed.

 

On the other PC, thumbnail capability is completely absent:

 

- "View" has only Large Icons, Small Icons, List, and Details.

- Newsnet experts say to R-click on a folder, and on the context

menu's General tab, activate a "Thumbnail checkbox". There is NO such

checkbox. The only checkboxes are Read-Only and Hidden.

- I also tried Run-ning that install-THUMBVW.DLL thing and Restart-ed

the system. No dice.

- IE 6 is installed.

 

(TweakUI is installed on both systems--altho' its UI has no About, so

don't know what version it is.)

 

So what's the problem? Some difference in IE 6 vs.5.5?

 

Thanks much.

 

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