Everything refuses to show thumbnails

[vulcan78]

Hi, first, thanks for Everything! I was working perfect up until a few days ago, I believe the problem started last night where Everything refused to allow a new search in a new window. Restarting the PC fixed that but now the new problem is that it refuses to allow thumbnails to be displayed and yes, the thumbnails display in Windows properly. Restarting the PC fixes this temporarily and then Everything will display thumbnails correctly but only for the first search in the first window, if you attempt to start a new search in a new windows the thumbnails do not display. Windows was not recently updated and running sfc /scannow from command prompt returns no integrity violations. What could the issue be? Thanks for any help with this.

[NotNull]

See if the following helps:

• Paste the following in the Everything search bar

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  /thumbnails=1

• Press ENTER
• Exit Everything
• Start Everything

Are thumbnails shown again?

Also: there might be somethingf wrong with your Everything ini file. Do you have a backup you can try?



thumbnails setting

[void]

Everything might be getting stuck loading a thumbnail for a particular file.

If you attempt to start a new search in a new windows the thumbnails do not display.

What does Everything show? just the file icon?



Everything loads thumbnails with IShellItemImageFactory or IExtractImage.

Please try disabling one or other to see if stability improves:

• Copy and paste the following into your Everything search box:
  /shell_item_image_factory=0
• Press ENTER in your Everything search box.
• If successful, shell_item_image_factory=0 is shown in the status bar for a few seconds.
  (the default value is: 1)
  -or-
• Copy and paste the following into your Everything search box:
  /extract_image=0
• Press ENTER in your Everything search box.
• If successful, extract_image=0 is shown in the status bar for a few seconds.
  (the default value is: 1)

If you disable both, Everything will never load any thumbnails.

shell_item_image_factory
extract_image



Please try shellExView to manage third party thumbnail handlers.
Disable any non-Microsoft thumbnail handlers and see if stability improves.

[vulcan78]

This behavior is random, for some search queries / files it refuses to show the thumbnails and others it does, I have a new problem where Everything is locking up / freezing and refusing to close and I need to terminate the process with task manager. For whatever reason searching for "cosmic" freezes everything in it's tracks and necessitates killing the program in task manager. What could be the cause of this behavior? Thanks for any help with this.

[NotNull]

What Everything version?
Which of the suggestions above did you try? What were the results? What Windows version? Were these files locatated on a local disk or network?
What happens if you skip the cosmic files (add !cosmic to your search)

[void]

refusing to close

A shell extension can cause these issues.



Please try disabling icon shell extensions and thumbnail icon overlays and see if the issue persists:

• Copy and paste the following into your Everything search box:
  /icon_shell_extensions=0
• Press ENTER in your Everything search box.
• If successful, icon_shell_extensions=0 is shown in the status bar for a few seconds.
  ---
• Copy and paste the following into your Everything search box:
  /thumbnail_overlay_icon=0
• Press ENTER in your Everything search box.
• If successful, thumbnail_overlay_icon=0 is shown in the status bar for a few seconds.

Please let me know if the issue persists.