can anyone help? GIF's don't thumbnail automatically in the folder corner like BMPs, HTMLs, etc. I've already altered the Registry keys and all that, but they still don't work. any ideas? thanks to LeeM and 8^D for their help with the last one- the REGEDIT alteration fixed the JPG problem, but not the GIFs??? any more suggestions would be appreciated. cheers, dara

First I would double check your .gif key thread in the Registry. All it takes is one error in those long code lines to invalidate everything. Compare against the lines in a file type that is working such as .jpg as they all have the same keys/values after the extension key. If that all seems OK copy this patch into Notepad. Save as a .reg file. Then double click it to merge it into your Registry. To be safe export all the indicated keys beforehand. This will overwrite any bad keys or replace any missing keys. However if you have any key of a different name in this area it will not delete the incorrect key. Copy from REGEDIT4 to the end of the file. Do not change any spacing. REGEDIT4 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.BMP\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}] @="{7376D660-C583-11d0-A3A5-00C04FD706EC}" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.art\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}] @="{7376D660-C583-11d0-A3A5-00C04FD706EC}" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.dib\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}] @="{7376D660-C583-11d0-A3A5-00C04FD706EC}" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.GIF\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}] @="{7376D660-C583-11d0-A3A5-00C04FD706EC}" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.jfif\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}] @="{7376D660-C583-11d0-A3A5-00C04FD706EC}" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.jpe\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}] @="{7376D660-C583-11d0-A3A5-00C04FD706EC}" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.jpeg\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}] @="{7376D660-C583-11d0-A3A5-00C04FD706EC}" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.jpg\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}] @="{7376D660-C583-11d0-A3A5-00C04FD706EC}" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.wmf\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}] @="{7376D660-C583-11d0-A3A5-00C04FD706EC}"

First I would double check your .gif key thread in the Registry. All it takes is one error in those long code lines to invalidate everything. Compare against the lines in a file type that is working such as .jpg as they all have the same keys/values after the extension key. If that all seems OK copy this patch into Notepad. Save as a .reg file. Then double click it to merge it into your Registry. To be safe export all the indicated keys beforehand. This will overwrite any bad keys or replace any missing keys. However if you have any key of a different name in this area it will not delete the incorrect key. Copy from REGEDIT4 to the end of the file at @="{7376D660-C583-11d0-A3A5-00C04FD706EC}". Do not change any spacing. REGEDIT4 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.BMP\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}] @="{7376D660-C583-11d0-A3A5-00C04FD706EC}" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.art\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}] @="{7376D660-C583-11d0-A3A5-00C04FD706EC}" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.dib\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}] @="{7376D660-C583-11d0-A3A5-00C04FD706EC}" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.GIF\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}] @="{7376D660-C583-11d0-A3A5-00C04FD706EC}" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.jfif\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}] @="{7376D660-C583-11d0-A3A5-00C04FD706EC}" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.jpe\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}] @="{7376D660-C583-11d0-A3A5-00C04FD706EC}" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.jpeg\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}] @="{7376D660-C583-11d0-A3A5-00C04FD706EC}" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.jpg\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}] @="{7376D660-C583-11d0-A3A5-00C04FD706EC}" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.wmf\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}] @="{7376D660-C583-11d0-A3A5-00C04FD706EC}"