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[HannahLewis]

alright I will try to keep it short, since a week or 2 my windows 7 is behaving strange, for example when I browse my spicy memes it does not preview the pictures like it did before instead I only see the names of the files+the file type as I will demonstrate in the picture with this thread. Also when I try to save a file whether that be world, excel or a picture sometimes (40%) of the times my windoes explorer just crashed making it impossible to save the file (my browser chrome then also crashes. Did anyone else have had this before and maybe knows a fix apart from reinstalling windows? All help is greatly appreciated

[CyberneticTitan]

Try deleting the thumbnail cache:

1. Save all current work

2. Open Task Manager

3. Kill all explorer.exe processes

4. In Task Manager, click File > New Task

5. Run cmd

6. Change directories by typing in "cd C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer" without quotations. Replace "user" with your user name

7. Delete all databases by typing in "del *.db"

8. Close cmd

9. Run New Task

10. Run explorer

 

Also considering run a quick system scan in Command Prompt: 

- Run "sfc \scannow"

[HannahLewis]

@CyberneticTitan will do thanks alot