YAY!!!

Finally, Microsoft has fixed the whole Quicktime Thumbnail issues with Photo Gallery.

I never cared much about Quicktime. I really dislike the program, so I use Quicktime Alternative instead. Once I purchased a digital camera that produced .mov files all of that changed. The good news is that Windows Live Photo Gallery shows thumbnails of .mov files; however the bad news was that it was slow and likely to crash Windows Explorer. That is until today when I downloaded kb955359 in Windows update. Now it works great.

I was delayed in installing it because I had renamed WLXQuickTimeControlHost.exe to WLXQuickTimeControlHost.ex_ to keep it from properly loading and causing its mischief. Once I named it back to normal the installation went through smoothly, and didn’t even require a reboot.