How do I get my lightroom pictures (thumbnails, grid and loupe) back?

I have lightroom 4.2 and have been using it for about two months on a Windows 7 64 bit system. Last Friday ALL pictures - the thumbnails, and the pictures in the grid and the loupe views disappeared and were replaced by grey rectangles. See screen shot:
I have tried using backup catalogs and other possible fixes but nothing has worked. Today I uninstalled Lightroom, moved the remaining Lightroom files - catalog, backups, etc. - and reinstalled Lightroom. I then created a new catalog. But once again all I get are grey rectangles rather than previews. As can be seen, the catalog contains the information about the photos. I just can't see them. And that is pretty crucial in a photo editing program!
I'm stumped and need some help, please.
Verdunboy

Many thanks to jim01403. I had managed to have the the pictures
reappear after doing many things including making some changes to the monitor's settings. Until I read the post from jim01403, I did not know how I had retieved those pictures. Now I believe that resetting the monitor profile is what corrected my problem. I've saved the location of the instructions for resetting the monior profile to an sRGB standard.
Again, many thanks.
Verdunboy1

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