Turning off Thumbs.db

[Precious]

I've seen alot of people asking about the thumbs.db and instead of searching over and over again through the forums, i'm making this a sticky. This information came from THIS (http://myspacepros.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1916&highlight=thumbs.db) thread. :) Credits MkInfo.


To turn off this feature and save a bit of disk space,
Click the Start button
Select Control Panel
Select Folder Options
Click the View tab
Check "Do not cache thumbnails"
Click the OK button
How to remove all current thumbs.db from your computer;
Click the Start button
Click Search
Click "All files and folders"
In the "All or part of the file name" box type Thumbs.db
Set the "Look in:" pull-down menu to "Local Hard Drives (C:)"
Click Search. A list of the files found appears in the right window.
Click in the right window where the files are listed and press the control button and the A button to highlight all the files (Ctrl+A).
Press the Delete key. It may take a few seconds to delete the files.I, Peronsally, HIGHLY reccomend ALL designers do this! Please! It only takes 1 minute!

Hope this helps everyone. :)

[markp9114]

cool thanks. what does the thumbs.db do anyways?

[idzone]

Thanks a lot. I didn't know the method.
To mark: Thumbs.db is a hidden file which cache's thumbnail preview images, i believe.

[markp9114]

Thanks a lot. I didn't know the method.
To mark: Thumbs.db is a hidden file which cache's thumbnail preview images, i believe.

ooic. thanks!

[Precious]

Thanks a lot. I didn't know the method.
To mark: Thumbs.db is a hidden file which cache's thumbnail preview images, i believe.

No problem. As I said, credits to MkInfo for posting it. :) I just re-dug it. lol

Precious: this (http://www.classweb.hs.iastate.edu/tips/thumbs/default.htm) page should explain it.
There's information on thumbs.db as I asked the same thing :P

[Precious]

Updated original post. :)

[Dale]

Thanks Angiie, yeah, while I was deleting, I had 3 years worth. Haha.

[Wojtek]

haha, right after I finished deleting all thumbs.db files after uploading my stuff I find this thread :P

Good info you shared there

[Mixi]

thanks I was looking for this too.

[elvis]

I'll get right on this, thanks for the info!

[idzone]

A few of the designers forget to delete the thumbs.db files, it seems.
I purchased from some 7-8 designers in last 3-4 days, and many of the zip files contained thumbs.db

[digitalxguilt]

^ Im probably one of them :P

I just followed what was said in the first post but they wont delete x.x

http://img68.imageshack.us/img68/3325/wontgohd5.png

does that mean im gunna have to go to all 541 places and delete them all?

[xo.Saz.xo]

Thanks so much Angie! <3

[Dalia]

Thanks for the information. it is cool.

[Incognito]

^ Im probably one of them :P

I just followed what was said in the first post but they wont delete x.x


Same for me.

I got this programme (http://personal.inet.fi/business/toniarts/ecleane.htm) to clean them out :)

[idzone]

Does anyone know how to turn off thumbs.db in vista?

[Incognito]

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/disable-thumbnail-previews-in-windows-vista-explorer/

[tinabina]

what happens when it telling you this message when trying to delete?
Cannot Delete file cannot read from the source file or disk

[Andrew2]

Someone in reply 12 had the same problem and incognito suggested this program:
http://myspacepros.com/forum/showpost.php?p=127243&postcount=15