View Photos As Thumbnails

[zingo1327]

I have several thousand photos on my hard drive but can't get them to display as thumbnails, only as tiles.
When I had windows xp it was straight forward.All i had to do was select my photos folder and select view as thumbnails but this option doesn't appear (or is well hidden) on the most annoying operating system (Windows 10)that i have ever used and I go back as far as
windows 3 11 I think it was called.Hope someone can help as microsoft help doesn't seem to know what a thumbnail is other than something on the end of your finger.AAAAGGGGGHHHHHH

[Old_Geezer]

Aren't small tiles much the same as thumbnails ?

[Stephen_G]

Right click in the folder you want, and you should get the options

View
Sort by
Group By
Refresh.

Hover your cursor over View and you get

Extra Large Icons
Large Icons
Medium Icons
Small Icons

Change to one of those and see if it makes a difference.

[Tuvok]

It may depend on the photos - if they've been saved with thumbnail info.

Try this

https://www.irfanview.com

[zingo1327]

hi old geezer.By thumbnails I mean mini photos.
I've tried your suggestion stephen and i get a long list of options but none of them work.
Could it be something to do with the fact I transferred the photos by disk to my new computer? As I say it worked perfectly well on my old computer. I would click Search,Photos and a thousand or so small photos would appear

[TheChair]

How to repair the thumbnail cache:
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-reset-thumbnail-cache-windows-10

[Old_Geezer]

Mini photos are what tiles/icons are. They get bigger if you choose medium, large, or very large.

[zingo1327]

hi guys.None of the answers worked but thanks anyway.I stumbled on the answer by pure luck.I opened file explorer and among the 4 icons,"downloads" this "PC" "desktop" etc, i noticed that I had 3 "Picture" folders. I moved all my pics from "One drive" folder to one of the other picture folders and Voila,I have my mini photos back. What's One Drive anyway?

[Tuvok]

OneDrive is cloud storage.