The Windows operating system saves thumbnails in a file called thumbs.db whenever you change the folder view mode to thumbnail view. This basically caches the image thumbnails so that they are displayed faster the next time you open that folder with that view mode. I personally have disabled the thumbnail creation on my system as [...]

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Windows users have several file display modes at their disposal in Windows Explorer. This ranges from several list view modes to icon view modes. Several popular image formats are supported by Windows Explorer, which has the effect that they will show up as thumbnail images in Windows Explorer. Some users may prefer to disable the [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic, Windows

Blogging with WordPress is an easy, quick way to get your posts to viewers without sitting down and plugging through an entire website of code yourself. However, there are certain aspects of the program that cause some users pause. For example, many posts benefit from a nice, clean thumbnail seated just to the left of [...]

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Movie Thumbnails serve two general purposes. They add a visual element to movie distributions, which is often used to provide potential customers or downloaders with a preview of the movie. Movie Thumbs also serve the purpose of adding previews to local movie collections. Programs like Auto Movie Thumbnailer automate the creation of video thumbnails as [...]

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Windows stores several file types by default in thumbnail database caches. File types that are included in those databases are image formats such as jpg or bmp but also video files live avi and document formats like pdf or html. The generation of thumbs.db files is enabled by default and it is not as easy [...]

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Windows Vista introduced a new imaging stack, called Windows Imaging Component (WIC), and uses it in Windows Explorer to create thumbnails for most image file formats. 3rd parties can write their own WIC codec to support proprietary image formats such as Nikon NEF or Canon CR2 raw files and Windows Explorer is able to show [...]

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It is not only web designers who need to create image thumbnails regularly. There are many situations where image thumbnails come in handy starting from blogging and publishing websites to PowerPoint presentations or preview images of a photo collection. Some programs and online scripts – like WordPress for instance – create image thumbnails automatically whenever [...]

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Image icons in Windows look all the same and the only way to distinguish or sort them is by using folders or file names. Xentient Thumbnails introduces a third possibility by providing an automatic windows thumbnail image generator for all images on the system. The system works by assigning thumbnail icons to every image in [...]

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Video Thumbnails Maker is a sophisticated tool to create thumbnails of videos. It supports a wide range of video formats including but not limited to the popular avi, wmv, mpg, rm, rmvb, flv and mov but also exotic formats like vob, 3gp and mkv. The only requirement is that an appropriate codec is installed on [...]

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