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WinXP .mov thumbnails (61)	Mar 13, 2008
My Panasonic digital camera records movies in .mov format. I don't know why, and I can't change it. The problem is that Windows XP doesn't show thumbnails for .mov files, which is an issue when I want to look through my pictures and videos with the whole "View → Thumbnails" option selected. I searched the internet for a solution several months ago and didn't find anything. I just searched again this morning and found a pretty simple solution, though I'm surprised at how relatively obscure it is and how hard it was to find. Here's what you need to do: Download QuickThumb.dll from here. Copy to C:WindowsSystem32. Go to Start → Run and type `regsvr32 QuickThumb.dll`. If there's an error, download msvcr70.dll from here and repeat steps 2 and 3. Go to a directory with .mov files, switch to thumbnail display, and possibly press F5 to refresh. I can't believe I didn't discover this sooner. That really annoys me. And it annoys me that the internet wasn't much help for a while. (I'm hosting all necessary files here.) #technology

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#1	yoyo	Jun 27, 2008
	The .txt you include is a bit more accurate. I believe both files need to be places in c:windowssystem32 and then the command you run is regsvr32 QuickThumb.dll; WITHOUT '/u' (which i think is the switch to UNregister..) Thanks a lot for putting this together. Very handy :)

#2	Dave	Jul 2, 2008
	Hmm, you're probably right. I changed it in the post above. Thanks.

#3	John	Sep 19, 2008
	How cool is this! Struggled without for years. Makes life so much easier! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

#4	Nathan	Oct 7, 2008
	I just wanted you to know that you probably just saved me a freelance video editing job... I had been struggling with this for days and was almost ready to give up. Thank you so much!

#5	Dave	Oct 7, 2008
	Awesome! Glad my little discoveries are actually helping people.

#6	Shaun	Oct 25, 2008
	Fantastic. Thank you. One problem though: when using the Search function in Explorer (with View set to Thumbnail) Explorer crashes just as the last thumbnail is displayed. (Windows XP)

#7	Dave	Oct 27, 2008
	Hmm that's a shame. I should've said at the beginning that I can't guarantee it won't make your computer blow up.

#8	anticyclope	Nov 18, 2008
	For video files you can use Thumbnailer from CapTrue. It is a WMP plugin, and when you using it you can assign ANY frame of your video as a thumbnail. Works with .mov and .mkv either. http://www.captrue.com/thumbnailer.html

#9	Matias	Dec 13, 2008
	Thanks!!!!!!!! por fin encontré la solución a mi problema...!!!! GRACIaS!!!! problema para ver vistas miniatura en el explorador de windows xp, se ralentiza, video .mov

#10	muhammed	Jan 9, 2009
	thanks for sharing such great idea i was suffering for decades !

#11	Ron	Jan 17, 2009
	Thank you for this

#12	Matthew	Jan 29, 2009
	Thanks so much! I have wanted to continue editing home video clips of my children, and with my new Casio camera/video camera only producing .MOV files, I was a bit lost on how to continue without the painstaking task of viewing each clip "blindly" to find the right ones. This worked! You've saved me hours...and nerves!! ;-)

#13	Shawn	Jan 29, 2009
	I'm getting an Explorer error in quickthumb.dll everytime I attempt to set the view mode to thumbnails in explorer. I put the files in windows/system.. how can I unregister quickthumb.dll? This is annoying...

#14	Dave	Jan 29, 2009
	I believe you unregister with `regsvr32 /u QuickThumb.dll`.

#15	Nigel	Mar 8, 2009
	Brilliant, thanks. I have been relying on seeing the thumbnails through Google's Picasa but this is better.

#16	panojack	Mar 13, 2009
	Not working. Both QuickThumb.dll and RealThumb.dll crash my WinXPSP2 :((

#17	bubu	Apr 27, 2009
	Thank you! It's really useful for my animations. Thanks.

#18	Jackie	Jun 22, 2009
	says I cannot open the .dll file. What am I doing wrong?

#19	Dave	Jun 22, 2009
	You're trying to open the DLL file. Don't. Follow the directions.

#20	Deano	Jun 28, 2009
	Brilliant, had trouble installing in Vista had to turn off UAC to get the dll to register, you may want to add that to the instructions

#21	florex78	Jul 4, 2009
	Thanks man .... this really helps me a lot . Again ... many thanks for this post .

#22	Zane	Jul 29, 2009
	I found this dll yesterday and tried and it crashed stating "the instruction at "0x01e827de" refrenced at "0x00000020". The memory could not be "read"." with different addresses every time. It seems to crash when it tries to paint the thumbnails. I noticed when I copied MSVCR70.dll there is one already there that is 336kb (as opposed to the one you provide which is 300kb). First I copied both files to system 32, registered quickthumb.dll then tested with a crash. Then I tried with the origional 336kb MSVCR70.dll, unregistered and registered quickthumb.dll with a crash. I am running SP3. I appreciate any help getting this to work. I looked into the UAC thing but that looks like a vista issue.

#23	Dave	Jul 29, 2009
	I have no idea. I'm just the messenger.

#24	FinnyDD	Oct 2, 2009
	Does this work for Vista x64Bit? Any help is appreciated.

#25	sb	Jan 22, 2010
	cheers works a treat!

#26	X	Feb 16, 2010
	almost two years later, still works XD thank you

#27	villa	Feb 18, 2010
	tnk, works super ok for my sp3

#28	Sam	Mar 23, 2010
	Thanks so much!!! Works great!!! Respect Yoooo!!

#29	Sith	Apr 10, 2010
	Works fine for all movs,exept for hd=(It crushes win explorer,still thx)

#30	Rick	Jun 7, 2010
	Hi.. downloaded today QuickThumb.dll v0.21 and placed it in C:WINDOWSSYSTEM32 folder. Upon viewing my pictures folder containing .MOV files from my Kodak camera, it crashes windows Explorer almost immediately. I'm presently using XP sp3. I'll Google some more. Rick

#31	Mac	Jun 10, 2010
	Works like magic!! Million thanks~

#32	Orelia	Jul 4, 2010
	Work! Many Thanks!

#33	sharoni macaroni	Jul 6, 2010
	Windows XP Professional, SP3 -- worked like a CHARM~ Thank you.

#34	Viv	Aug 11, 2010
	Thank you, this worked for me!

#35	steve zabrisky	Nov 4, 2010
	works perfect~! makes my workflow 100x more efficient.

#36	Edub	Nov 23, 2010
	Same deal with me, SP3 installed and Explorer crashes to blank desktop

#37	Delta Echo	Dec 21, 2010
	XP Pro SP3 using "regsvr32 QuickThumb.dll" downloaded right to /windows/system32 works like a charm. Excellent project, excellent use of system resources for a tweak that SHOULD have been in XP all along! Cheers!

#38	Tim	Dec 30, 2010
	Thank you so much for posting this. Very useful!

#39	Erik	Feb 27, 2011
	Can't remember a moment where I was as happy as a few minutes ago. IT WORKS!!!!! Finally after 8 years the solution. Saves me a hell lot of conversions and search actions now. btw: I only copied the QuickThumb.dll in system32 because the existing file was newer and it works perfect. Thanx from Holland, haha

#40	Stefan	Mar 7, 2011
	This works like a charm. Installed it under XP SP3. No msvcr.dll needed. Worked instantly.Thank you very much. Now I need a simple way to cut .mov files (avi. files i simply cut in VirtualDub, but with .mov this won't work)

#41	Wes Nile	Mar 13, 2011
	It really worked! Thankyou so much for posting this. I was looking for 2 days.

#42	sevy75	Mar 27, 2011
	Hoorah!

#43	miguel	May 30, 2011
	hey I did exactly and have an error, it says that quickthumb.dll is not an executable file... I am runing windows XP 64bit

#44	Manjula	Jun 15, 2011
	Brilliant. it works for me xp, sp2. I did almost everything and nothing worked till this post. Thanks Dave..

#45	Mike	Jun 23, 2011
	This procedure will crash Windows Explorer. Really not recommended. I'm a bit skeptical of those that say it worked.

#46	Shawn	Jun 24, 2011
	You should be weary-- because it doesn't work.

#47	Erik	Jun 24, 2011
	With me it still works on 2 computers (Windows XP 32Bit SP3) No crash of explorer etc. or other issues. Just needed the Quickthump.dll file Maybe it has to do with the 64bit versions of WindowsXP My next install will be Windows7 so this issue will be solved. @Mike: If it doesn't work for you, sorry. You have to find an other solution. But no reason to be skeptical on those of who worked the patch for. I'm also not sceptical of your copy-paste capabillities ;-) It still was worth the try

#48	Mike	Jun 27, 2011
	I am skeptical only because it certainly doesn't always work (read those reports in every forum that discusses this dll) and crashing Explorer is a very serious potential side-effect, but in hindsight I agree with you that I should not have used that word in the context I did, as it infers the (whole) truth was not told, I apologize. What I'm inclined to believe is that for those users in which this dll does work there is some additional file(s) present which allow this to work for them, otherwise how could this work for some, and absolutely crash Explorer for others? You see, it didn't just crash Explorer once (while being implemented), but will not allow Explorer to run until the dll is unregistered. For some users this would be considered catastrophic. I too, have tried this dll on several 32bit XP SP2 and SP3 machines, although always unsuccessfully, and always with the crash. What I would like to see is a complete and reliable solution to this issue. If Quicktime or another MOV codec is installed this registry entry can work: [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.movShellEx{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}] @="{c5a40261-cd64-4ccf-84cb-c394da41d590}" This registry entry does not, and can not, cause Windows Explorer to crash, so is ultimately more secure(reliable) than the dll, but again, an appropriately installed codec is required. I accidentally came back to this page today because of my ongoing search for a reliable solution. I'm glad I did, because the more people discuss this issue, the more likely a 100% reliable solution (if there is such a thing) will be found. I think Mike B, the author of this dll, should have gone a bit farther than "...your results may vary" in his warning.

#49	Erik	Jun 29, 2011
	Mike,I agree with you. I also was searching the web for a solution. Installed numerous programs and codec's. (k-lite codec pack etc) but nothing worked for me. This DLL did the job for me. Don't know why. But to play save it's better to install a MOV codec and add that registrycode of your's Only be carefull when you edit your registry, you could end up in the same crash... Not for you, but for some people who are not known to a registry editor. But I added it into my fix list for my next xp install, so thanx. Defenitily not sceptical of your capabillities, thumps up !! Apologizes on my side ;-)

#50	Paul	Jul 5, 2011
	Dave you're awesome. Over three years later your solution still works as a charm. It took a minute or two to go through the entire process. No issues. Thanks.

#51	Filip	Sep 11, 2011
	THANKS A LOT!!!!!

#52	Alex	Oct 19, 2011
	Fantastic, cheers for this!

#53	Mark	Nov 9, 2011
	Thank you so much, this has been a major irritation since I got an IPhone

#54	Kevin from Germany	Dec 3, 2011
	Dude!!!! :D the shiat! I´m so greatfull for your help! :-) it actually worked out ;D

#55	Stefan	Dec 3, 2011
	I had to uninstall (unregister) it again, because my explorer was crashing when i got into folders with .mov files. First it was working but since 2011 I got problems. I dont know exactly why, but i think there a certain types of .mov files, that it can't handle... =( Would be nice if the bug could be fixed, or at least if the explorer didnt crash (no matter if there is no thumbnail)... greets

#56	Christy	Mar 4, 2012
	was skeptical at first... Windows XP SP3 works like a charm...

#57	Richi near Frankfurt/M.	Apr 5, 2012
	Thanks Dude, that solved my sorrows. Windows sucks in that way, your tip works great! First time i used those kinda codes, I feel like a real Computer-Nerd ;-)))

#58	Greg	Jun 16, 2012
	Thanks for the simple fix, it worked much better than some of the other methods out there which often recommend manual alterations to the registry. I can see my MOV thumbnails now which makes working with many small videos a lot faster for editing purposes. Thanks again.

#59	Bob	Apr 20, 2014
	Dude you are the man!!! I had been looking for 3 hrs and finally found this, the light at the end of a long tunnel.

#60	Jason	Mar 17, 2015
	Crashes Windows Explorer Win XP Pro SP3.

#61	Terry	Sep 24, 2015
	Same problem here. Crashing Win Explorer in XP Pro (SP3) in certain folders. Some of the MOV files do have thumnails and some don't. I'm guessing that the latter are reacting with QuickThumbs to cause the crash.