XP Crashes when I try to view images

[danny]

When I try to view photos from the My Pictures - folder in thumbnail view, XP crashes and I end up out of the folder. The images are in jpeg format. My specs are:

AMD 2400+ CPU
512M RAM
2 X 40G HDD
ATI Radeon 7500 video with latest drivers

I am at a loss. It didn't use to do this and now for the last couple of weeks it does this. Only in My Picture folder. Any ideas? Folder has too many photos maybe? Thanks

[neouser99]

Sounds like it is a problem with the My Pictures folder, but not too many photos.

when in the my docs folder, right click on My Pictures and select properties. Try changing the folder from a picture folder to a normal data folder, and see if it still crashes. If it doesn't, change it back to picture folder and hopefully that will reset the settings.

Otherwise, worst comes to worst, you can just copy all the pictures to a different folder, or move them.

-neo

[yellohut]

I would try neouser99's advice first, but if that doesn't work, try using system restore to a time before you started having this problem.

[neouser99]

hahaha

good call...i didn't even think about that, curse me for turning system restore off :P

-neo

[danny]

Alright I will then I'll do the system restore thing. OK I went into the Properties and can't seem to figure out how to change it from a pictures folder to a data folder. It is already set to a data folder.

[neouser99]

I would just go ahead with the system restore, sounds like something either within the system registry or some .ini file became corrupt, which at that point would be pretty difficult to do...before you restore...what happens when you boot to safe mode and open picutreS??

-neo

[danny]

Nothing at all. It seems that part works well. What I did also was went into my folders and changed the View settings to list. I was able to go through all of them without a hitch. Hopefully that will have fixed it as I don't want to reformat. Thanks for your help guys.

[neouser99]

oooooo....your thumbs.db file for that folder is probably corrupt. if you got to folder settings, and view all hidden, and also view all system files, you should see a thumbs.db file in that folder....I am not sure, but I believe if you delete that then windows will just recreate it, and redraw all the thumbnails, which should fix the corruptness

can someone else confirm windows recreates the thumbs.db file in the folders??

-nick