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 [...]

Categories: Open Source, Software, Windows

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 [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

One of the first settings that I change after installing Windows on a new computer is the creation of those thumbs.db files that get automatically created by Windows. The thumbs.db file contains small thumbs of many popular image formats in the directory which is both a privacy risk and a performance drain. The files are [...]

Categories: Software