Changing EXIF thumbnail in VB.net under Windows XP - vb.net

I built an app that makes some modifications to a picture, changes it's EXIF thumbnail to match the newly created picture and saves it.
It works perfectly under Win 7, but under XP, the EXIF thumbnail remains the same. Here is the part of the code that changes the thumbnail.
Dim MS As New MemoryStream()
Dim bmp_thumb = bmp.GetThumbnailImage(160, 120, Nothing, New IntPtr())
bmp_thumb.Save(MS, ImageFormat.Jpeg)
bmp_thumb.Dispose()
MS.Position = 0
Dim smallthumbbytes As Byte() = MS.ToArray()
Dim PropertyItems = bmp.PropertyItems
PropertyItems(0).Id = &H501B
PropertyItems(0).Type = 1
PropertyItems(0).Len = smallthumbbytes.Length
PropertyItems(0).Value = smallthumbbytes
bmp.SetPropertyItem(PropertyItems(0))
PropertyItems = bmp.PropertyItems
PropertyItems(0).Id = &H5023
PropertyItems(0).Type = CShort(3)
PropertyItems(0).Len = 2
PropertyItems(0).Value = New Byte() {6, 0}
bmp.SetPropertyItem(PropertyItems(0))
bmp.Save(filename)
Should I note, the thumbnail offset of the picture doesn't change under XP too.
Any help appreciated!

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I am struggling to find a way on how to get any file thumbnail into my userforms picturebox (The image visible in windows explorer) using visual basic.
I have only found how to do that for image files
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Try the following which is adapted from C# get thumbnail from file via windows api
Download/install NuGet package Microsoft-WindowsAPICodePack-Shell
Imports Microsoft.WindowsAPICodePack.Shell
Imports System.IO
...
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'resize
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resizedBmp.Save(ms, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Jpeg)
thumbnailBytes = ms.ToArray()
End Using
End Using
End Using
Return thumbnailBytes
End Function
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Using ofd As OpenFileDialog = New OpenFileDialog()
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Make windows form panel a pdfpage using PDFSharp? VB.NET

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