How does one get Vista to display .MOV thumbnails as a frame from the movie?

Posted by Paul Hollingsworth on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Paul Hollingsworth
Published on 2009-09-02T21:16:08Z Indexed on 2011/03/07 0:12 UTC
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I've discovered that Windows Vista explorer shell does not display proper "thumbnail"s for .MOV files.

e.g. For .JPG files, the explorer shell, when in Thumbnail mode, displays a scaled down version of the image. But for .MOV files, it displays the same icon as in the non-thumbnail view, which is just some generic thing that shows you it's going to be played with Quicktime or whatever.

What XP used to do was show you a frame from the actual movie as the thumbnail.

I've looked on internet and found various proposed solutions, but none which actually work.

Is there a simple step-by-step process for getting Vista to properly display thumbnails for .MOV files?

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