Viewing thumbs.db files

This button is at the top of the File Explorer window, above the folder directory. It will open your file and folder viewing options on a toolbar at the top.

Click the Options button on the View toolbar. This button is on the right-end of the toolbar. It will open a drop-down menu. Click Change folder and search options in the drop-down. This will open your Folder Options menu in a new dialogue box.

This button is at the top of the dialogue box. You can manually change all your file and folder viewing options here. Click and uncheck the Hide protected operating system files option. You can find this option under the "Hidden files and folders" heading in the Advanced Settings box here. Click Yes in the confirmation pop-up. This will confirm your action, and uncheck the option. This will apply your new folder settings.

You can now see your "Thumbs. Right-click the "Thumbs. You can find this file in the same folder as your image files. Select Delete on the right-click menu. It's towards the bottom between "Create shortcut" and "Rename. You can move the image around the window with the mouse or arrow keys. Each arrow key will move the image 1 pixel in that direction.

By holding Ctrl and pressing an arrow key, the image will move 5 pixels. By holding Shift and pressing an arrow key, the image will move 25 pixels. It looks like Windows is taking a while to create the thumbnail cache file. While this file is being created or updated, you cannot do anything with its parent directory until the thumbcache.

In this case, you can turn off the automatic generation of the thumbs. To prevent Windows File Explorer from creating a hidden thumbnail cache Thumbs. The existing Thumbs. You can recursively delete all Thumbs. Notify me of followup comments via e-mail.

You can also subscribe without commenting. Since you want to delete those, we can disable the settings which displays the file icon on thumbnails. Here's how:. If you think this was useful, do not hesitate to "mark it as an answer" to help those who are facing the same problem.

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