How do I disable generating thumbnails in Windows XP?

[gsaldivar]

I have folders containing several hundred MB of .tga images. The contents of these folders change often, and I don't want/need thumbnails of each image generated when I open the folder.

If I check "Do not cache thumbnails" in the folder options, XP wants to generate new thumbnails every time I open these folders, making the computer unresponsive for several seconds.

Unchecking "Do not cache thumbnails" in the folder options isn't much of an improvement. XP still insists on generating thumbnails for new images in each folder, and caching them in "thumbs.db" files.

Isn't there a way to completely DISABLE thumbnails?

I don't want them. I don't need them. XP insists on creating them - which means 100% cpu usage and and unresponsive computer every time I open a folder full of images...



Help! Thanks!

 

[Anubis]

view as a list?

ive never seen this .tga stuff you are talking about

 

[Zim Hosein]

Click VIEW and then choose anything but Thumbnails

 

[Arkitech]

open windows explorer then click on view and choose detail

it sounds like right now you're viewing all files as thumbnails, just change view to detail.

 

[gsaldivar]

I meant for this to go into the OS forum, sorry.

Is there anyone who can move this thread so I don't have to start a new one?

*.tga is commonly used to store screenshots, because the image data in the video card image buffer can be dumped directly to a file with little modification (and little CPU usage while dumping).

I always have the View mode of these folders set to Details - not Thumbnails.

 

[dartworth]

wrong forum...

 

[Wizkid]

What happens if you remove write permissions for everyone on the thumbs.db file?

 

[rudeguy]

Originally posted by: dartworth
wrong forum...

^2

 

[gsaldivar]

Bump.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Do you have Photoshop installed? I didn't think that WinXP spoke ".tga" by default.

I think I saw another post describing this issue, and the solution was to remove some registry keys that caused Photoshop to be generating the thumbnails. That might explain why the behaviour keeps happening, even when you set the flag to tell Explorer.exe to stop.