These are the things you need to fix broken thumbnail previews in Windows Explorer: KEYS... HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\ShellEx HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1} String value called (Default) set to... {7376D660-C583-11d0-A3A5-00C04FD706EC}