Windows Explorer Thumbnails (Inventor 2011 & 2013)

[kirscherj2]

The issue I have is that after so long thumbnails in windows explorer stop loading just shows generic Autodesk image(.ipt, .iam, .stp, .idw, .dwg ect.). Causing me to be unsure on which file I'm actually opening. Causing me to have to restart the computer.

What is weird is you are able to see the thumbnails in the thumbnail of the parent folder but when you open the folder they aren't shown. If you open up properties it shows a thumbnail.

Closing and opening a new window doesn't fix this error.

This was an issue I had experienced with 2011 and am still experiencing with 2013.

All other thumbnails (pictures and pdf's show still)

Addisional information:

Win 7

No updates or service packs

This is really frustrating any help is apprechated.

[Cadmanto]

See if this thread helps you.

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Autodesk-Inventor-Customization/Fix-for-Inventor-Thumbnails-running-on...

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Autodesk-Inventor-Customization/Extracting-thumbnails-from-Inventor-20...

[Paul-Mason]

I,ve got the same problem with Inventor 2012 Windowa 7 (32bit) all SPs and Hotfixes for both inventor and Windosws installed.

I noteced this AFTER installing SP2 and susequetn fixes for SP2 but still the problem persists. 

[-niels-]

I'm not sure if this will help, since it's originally for inventor view, but maybe worth a try.

See this topic:

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Autodesk-Inventor/Inventor-Viewer-2012-Issue/m-p/3083888/highlight/tru...

The Dtdv.exe is also in inventor's Bin directory, might be worth a shot running it to try and get the file associations back...

[djreesing]

I had a similar problem which was solved by disabling User Account Control (UAC) in windows 7.

Regards, Daniël

[Paul-Mason]

I've have never used UAC. Not much point to it on a single user standalone, So I think I can safely rule that out.