Layer's thumbnails look like paint brushes, why?

I have Elements 10 and have run into the problem of having all the thumbnails in the Layers Panel looking like paint brushes in a little box rather than an image of what is taking place in the layer. Does anyone know what might be going on?
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It sounds like somehow you've got the layer thumbnail contents set to None.
Click the four-lined square at the upper right of the layers panel and choose Panel Options. The radio button for thumbnail size is normally set at Medium.

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