Lost the ability to display thumbnails in WIN 7 (large icons)

I have seen this posted several months ago, and there was no real solution.  I looked everywhere on the web, and I still have to find a solution.  I can't believe that nobody has a solution, but... I'm starting to think that I'm stuck with the problem I have.

BACKGROUND: WIN7 PRO, ACROBAT 9 STD (LAST PLAYER IF INSTALLED)

PROBLEM: I have thousands of. PDF in hundreds of cases.  When I go to a particular file, I chose view to large icons.  The "thumbnail" is more fills and all I see is an icon of WIN.  That I have updated various. PDF, I have change some colors on the homepage - it allows me to look at a file and know what components are updated, and what items should be updated.

TROUBLESHOOTING:

  1. Open Acrobat and selected the file > Open (in this dialog choose extra large, medium or large icons and wait) - this worked last year when I had this same problem with a system running Vista - NO CHANCE
  2. Tools > folder options > view tab (always show icons, never thumbnails is disabled)
  3. Restored the default folder settings and unchecked always shows icons - NO CHANCE
  4. played "Repair Installation of Acrobat" - NO CHANCE
  5. Uninstalled and installed just Adobe Reader - NO CHANCE
  6. Uninstalled Reader and performed a clean install of Acrobat - NO CHANCE
  7. Register 'edit' for ShellEx under class .pdf (seen it out there for the same problem with .gif and .jpeg so thought maybe? grasping at straws but worth it)- NO CHANCE
  8. Restore the system to 'before' issue started happening - No. L KLA

Short of reformatting my system and starting over, I'm out of ideas and found nothing new on this out there (the last post was in 2009?!).  Would not really solve the problem but rather to subordinate the issue disappear until it pops up again.  I find the reason that what is happening 'out of the blue"and a solution.  I have not tried all the options "third party" and would like to stick with the help of all that worked up until this last week - ACROBAT.

Thanks for any help there - sorry to duplicate a thread, but I've not seen this recent when I did a search here.

You can try a few search terms at http://search.microsoft.com/search.aspx?mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US to see if Microsoft has an article describing a fix

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