What about the Thumbnails?

[Jack Catalano]

I was wondering where my thumbnails went to? Now I have upgraded to IE 7 to IE 8 and now I have IE 9. I still dont have my thumbnails even though I upgraded to IE 9. I've installed all my updates, which have all been successfully installed. Is there anything else I should do?

[jason2074]

What do you mean thumbnails? On your webpage or visited/saved website?

[soybean]

What do you mean thumbnails? On your webpage or visited/saved website?

Or, do you mean on Windows taskbar?

[Jack Catalano]

At the bottom of the screen where my webpages are, usually I can see a little box with the webpage, the thumbnails, and now I dont see them.

[soybean]

Or, do you mean on Windows taskbar?

Do you know what the Windows taskbar is?  Do you know how it works?

[Jack Catalano]

Im not sure if I know how the windows taskbar works. What would I have to do to get the thumbnails to work again?

[soybean]

Is this what you mean?:

[Jack Catalano]

No. What it is that on the bottom of my screen, it has the sites Im on at the moment. When I moved the mouse towards the webpages, I would see the thumbnails. I dont have what you posted above.

[soybean]

So, when you hover your mouse over the Internet Explorer icon on the taskbar, which is at the bottom of your screen, you see thumbnails of the webpages you have open in Internet Explorer.  And, if you hover your mouse over a thumbnail, you see that webpage in the full Internet Explorer window.  Is that it? 

[Jack Catalano]

Soybean, all of what you said is correct.

[soybean]

Soybean, all of what you said is correct.

So, that's what you were seeing prior to starting this discussion but now it's not working that way and you don't see the thumbnails, right?

Did you change your desktop display to Windows Classic?  In other words, did you disable a Windows Aero Theme?  The thumbnails will not work if you're not using a Windows Aero Theme. 

No. What it is that on the bottom of my screen, it has the sites Im on at the moment.

And, that's exactly what I showed you in the image I posted. Look at it again.  It shows two thumbnails representing two web pages open in Internet Explorer.  So, why did you say my image is not what you are talking about? 
 

[Jack Catalano]

So, that's what you were seeing prior to starting this discussion but now it's not working that way and you don't see the thumbnails, right?

That is correct.


Did you change your desktop display to Windows Classic?  In other words, did you disable a Windows Aero Theme?  The thumbnails will not work if you're not using a Windows Aero Theme.

I not sure what my desktop display is. How would I find that out?  I have Windows Vista Home Premium which has Aero.

 
And, that's exactly what I showed you in the image I posted. Look at it again.  It shows two thumbnails representing two web pages open in Internet Explorer.  So, why did you say my image is not what you are talking about?

I looked at it again and realized thats what I was talking about.

Im sorry, I forgot about this question that I posted. You hit the nail on the head with everything.

[Jack Catalano]

Well, I got the thumbnails back!! I actually have Microsoft Fix It Center and they fixed the problem. There were a couple of programs that were unknown and the Acer E-Tool would show up when I would start my computer.

Basically any program thats on Microsoft Fix It Center, I ran it. Power, Performance, System Maintenance, you name it, I ran it.