Pdf thumbnails in Windows 7 64bit?

How do I get my thumbnails to show up using Adobe Reader X and 64 bit Windows 7?
Thanks

Not a reasonable answer to the issue. Sounds like something I'd get from Dell in the old days. The fact is thumbnails work for everything else EXCEPT PDF's. It is a reader issue regardless of what code is causing the problem.
A system restore? I could also reformat and re-install. Neither is the answer. I am interested in figuring out what is preventing thumbnails from displaying.
This problem exists on both x86 and x64 installs and is not unique to my systems.
Thanks anyway.

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Not a reasonable answer to the issue. Sounds like something I'd get from Dell in the old days. The fact is thumbnails work for everything else EXCEPT PDF's. It is a reader issue regardless of what code is causing the problem.
A system restore? I could also reformat and re-install. Neither is the answer. I am interested in figuring out what is preventing thumbnails from displaying.
This problem exists on both x86 and x64 installs and is not unique to my systems.
Thanks anyway.

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Please can anyone help? This is driving me crazy.
We have 3 PCs in our house - 2 on Windows 7 32 bit (notebooks) and a desktop running Windows 7 64 bit.
I had the no thumbnail preview problem on the 64 bit system solved with the 3rd party patch download. It works great now. I then noticed that we have the same problem on one of the notebooks running 32 bit. It has got me stumped.
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Not a reasonable answer to the issue. Sounds like something I'd get from Dell in the old days. The fact is thumbnails work for everything else EXCEPT PDF's. It is a reader issue regardless of what code is causing the problem.
A system restore? I could also reformat and re-install. Neither is the answer. I am interested in figuring out what is preventing thumbnails from displaying.
This problem exists on both x86 and x64 installs and is not unique to my systems.
Thanks anyway.

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Since you people are no help, I will log my own attempts to resolve this issue, in case I need to do it again in the future.
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Due to the huge number of PC's I have this all being done with automated scripts. The issue is not with the deployment, but the funcationality of PDF thumbnails.
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