title: IShellItemImageFactory Icon\Thumbnails different from Windows 7 Desktop
body: <p>I am using IShellItemImageFactory to get icons and thumbnails for files and directories.  In most cases this works great, but in some cases I get an image that is quite different from the one in explorer.exe.</p>
  
  <p>Folders in explorer.exe show some of their contents represented as pieces of paper.  Whenever I request an image for a directory, I get an empty folder in my program.</p>
  
  <p>Videos playable by Windows Media Player in explorer.exe show as a piece of filmstrip with a thumbnail as the cell.  When I request an image for such a video file I get just a thumbnail with no movie strip border.</p>
  
  <p>I am sure there are other examples, but in general I just want to know if there is a way to request an image from the system that looks exactly like whatever is displayed on the desktop or in a folder in explorer.exe.  I want everything to look the same so my program isn't "sloppy."</p>