Today i discoverd that i had an entire directory of Quicktime Movies from an old Camera I had, that only did them in that format. The Challange with so many .mov files was trying to decipher what was what in a timely fashion. By default windows xp does not display Quicktime thumbnails but i have an answer and it is working for me. A project called quickthumb to the rescue http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~mbarrien/projects/. It’s a “.dll” file that you can install to show quicktime thumbnails. I’ve tried it and it works great fine. In case you’re not sure how to install it (ignore this if you are!) – download the dll (binary) file and copy it into the c:\windows\system32 folder. Then open up the “command prompt” from start>all programs>accessories. At the blinking prompt type c:\windows\system32\regsvr32 quickthumb.dll
You should then get a confirmation message. Now browse the folder you want in thumbnail mode and you should see the quicktime thumbnail
Tada . Thanks to Paul Argyle