Learn how to enable and disable thumbnail previews and display Thumbnail Previews on Network folders in File Explorer of Windows 11/10.

You can display the Thumbnail preview of the first page of your Word, Excel, PowerPoint file as its icon instead of default Office icon. Here's the trick!

When’s the last time you used File Explorer’s “Display file icon on thumbnails” option? How about the Sharing wizard? If the answer is “never,” you’re not alone. Microsoft has taken ...

On Windows 11, the modern version of File Explorer can also show thumbnails for a quick preview of the contents of a file, folder, document, image, or video.

The software renders 3D icons and thumbnails using OpenGL. Folder icons show miniature icons and thumbnails of the items inside, and large previews are available for most common file types.