In the folder how do I make blender files show a preview of themodel? In the folder where my models are saved, it used to display an image of that model in the icon but after updating my computer, it just displays the blender icon. Does anyone know how to change it so it shows a rendered preview of the model?

Here's a screenshot to show what I mean:


It used to display the model in the preview instead of the blender icon and I even tried rendering a view, saving it, closing blender and refreshing the folder but that didn't work.

Does anyone know how to do this? I'm using windows 10 and my computer model is an MSI all in one touchscsreen gaming PC. Also I think my GPU is intel and it comes with Nvidia but I turned it off since it kept messing with blender but this was way before this file display issue happened, so I don't think it's the cause.
Usually, it's done via the windows installer file but sometimes it doesn't work.

You can do it manually though, using command lines.

First, you have to navigate to your Blender installation folder, which by default is C:/Program files/Blender Foundation/Blender.
A simple way to do it is to right-click a Blender shortcut and hit "open file location". You can find one of these shortcuts on your desktop, or in your start menu by typing in "Blender" in the search bar.
Or, if Blender is already running, right-click its icon in the taskbar → Properties → file location.

Once in Blender's folder, click on the path, write "cmd" and press &#9166; Enter. This will open a windows command prompt in the current folder.

Then type in the following command and press &#9166; Enter:

blender -R


If it goes correctly, it should answer this:

Registering file extension...success (user)


You just need to close any windows explorer windows and open again to apply the changes.
Alternatively, you can also do this via the following command:

taskkill /f /im explorer.exe &amp;&amp; start explorer.exe


Note that it will do the registration only for the current user. If you want to do it for the entire system:


open the start menu
type in "cmd"
right-click the command line tools
"run as administrator"
run the command chdir "C:/Program files/Blender Foundation/Blender"(change your blender path if needed)
run the command blender -R
run the command taskkill /f /im explorer.exe &amp;&amp; start explorer.exe
voilà