After about a year or so of normal use Photo Gallery developed an annoying bug: The vast majority of my thumbnails show up as the generic mountain icon! If I double click on one, the picture displays normally. Windows explorer shows thumbnails for the
same pictures folder just fine.
Things that I have tried in order to fix this:
1) Going to control panel>folder options>view and making sure that "Always show icons, never thumbnails" is unchecked
2) Renaming/deleting the Pictures.pd6 in AppData>Local>Microsoft>Windows Live Photo Gallery
3) Deleting entirely the Windows Live and Windows Live Photo Gallery folders in AppData
4) Uninstalling and re-installing
5) Uninstalling and re-installing a previous version (2011)
6) Running command prompt>sfc/scannow (It showed no problems)
7) Deleting the windows thumbnail database via disk cleanup
8) Running the Microsoft Fix it for Photo Gallery at http://support.microsoft.com/mats/windows_photo_and_slideshow_diag/?wa=wsignin1.0
My computer has an SSD on C:\ and a HDD on D:\. I should add that I set my user directory to a non-default location via a registry edit, so my user directory is D:\Alex. I highly doubt this is the cause since Photo Gallery was working fine for about
a year. When I boot up on my HDD side and run Photo Gallery, it works normally.
Any help on this issue would be appreciated.
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