I've discovered that the Windows Vista Explorer shell does not display proper thumbnails for .MOV files.
As an example, a .JPG file will be shown in the Explorer shell thumbnail mode as a scaled down version of the image. However for .MOV files, it displays the same icon as in the non-thumbnail view, which is just some generic thing that shows you it's going to be played with QuickTime or whatever.
What XP used to do was show you a frame from the actual movie as the thumbnail.
I've looked on the Internet and found various proposed solutions, but none which actually work.
Is there a simple step-by-step process for getting Vista to properly display thumbnails for .MOV files?
Best Answer
When you install K-Lite Codec Pack, towards the end of the installer, it asks you if you want to have thumbnails generated for all the file types it supports. You get thumbnails for quite a lot of formats, including, I believe, for mov files.