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Group: microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize · Group Profile
Author: Poprivet
Date: May 6, 2007 15:56

lmd_84 wrote:
> Have searched around the site and other places for an answer to this,
> and couldn't find one that answered it specifically, and I don't want
> to muck around with settings I don't understand. As far as I could
> tell, I think it's something to do with the registry, but I thought
> asking people would be better then going by instructions I'm not sure
> of.
>
> I use thumbnail view for various things - in music folders, picture
> folders, and assign individual thumbnails to a group of document
> folders (they're the 'covers' for the files therein). Seeing as this
> works out at hundreds of folders, the problem might have come about
> simply because I'm assigning too many single folders specific
> pictures. If this is the case, well, I need to be less picky about
> the style of my folders...
>
> The thing is that some folders where I have not assigned a particular
> picture are coming up with unrelated ones. The same happens with
> music files, as I'll play a file in WMP and have the 'album art'
> showing as the picture of book-cover or something, when I'd never
> manually given the file any picture on the 'advanced tag editor'.
> Trying to return the thumbnail settings on each individual folder to
> default doesn't always work, though I can assign a different picture.
>
> Seeing as it doesn't matter whether I have specific thumbnails on
> folders or not, is it possible for me to delete these random
> thumbnails, or all current ones just to clear them out? Or have I
> just been fiddling around with the view settings too much and need
> to....just stop doing it, and leave things as they are?
>
> (I came up with a similar question about folders not long ago, so
> sorry to take advantage of these threads again...)

I can't really get my head around that, but ... doesn't WMP have an option
that will change the icons based on (forgot)? . Sorry, I know that's
not much help, but it seems like WMP can fiddle with icons if you want it
to. Maybe that's what you're seeing as changes you didn't make.

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