Please Help - PDF File icon No longer working???

Ok this may sound a bit wierd, but bare with me. Ok so I just got a new laptop because my old one was going a little wonky..... long story short, it's gone. So I was transfering some pdf files that I had backed up to an external drive onto my new system. Both systems are running on Windows 7 Ultimate. So in a folder I have a number of PDF's stored. When I open the folder I see all the files, but they all look the same, they all have the default Adobe reader icon. This is fine, but I would much rather have my old view back. I used to open the folder and see all of the Covers of the books that are in the pdf's. How can I get the covers to show as the file icon again as oposed to the Adobe file icon? There has to be something that I'm missing. Sorry to have rambled on. I look forward to hearing your sugestions.

Thanx for the suggestion. I did the steps that i found on google to create the enable/disable thumbnail option and changing it to enable, i can tell it has changed to enable because other file types show the thumbnails but the pdf files are still not showing.

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