System file thumbs

How to Get rid of Thumbs. Can I Hide Them from View? Can I Stop Thumbs. Delete Thumbs. Now click on the View tab, an scroll down to Hidden Files and Folders :. I make sure to set Show hidden files and folders , as well as Hide extensions for known file types and Hide protected operating system files. The later will give you a warning, but I prefer to see everything.

If you like, you can right click on it and click on Delete :. Fortunately you can turn it off with a simple setting. Just check Do not cache thumbnails , and no new thumbs. Subscribe to Confident Computing! Less frustration and more confidence, solutions, answers, and tips in your inbox every week. I have the opposite problem. Why not? I want to see thumbnails, but they do not appear. I was moving a folder with many jpegs from one drive to another.

The jpegs were all arranged alphabetically. All the jpegs after the T are stuck in the old drive, and when I open the old folder, I cannot see the thumbnails. I tried to more the remaining jepegs over, but the thumbs. What can I do? Will deleting the thumbs.

Also why can I not see thumbnails of the jpegs remaining in the old folder? Was cleaning my picture folder and this file had over 9MB so I was trying to get rid of the bigger file like this. Yet windows kept telling me it was being used by a program, but, being windows it does not tell you which one! So trying to figure out and close the thing was driving me nuts. Great job Chief! I wsa to get rid of the thumbs.

Leo, I was trying to delete an old folder that had some pictures in it. When I went to delete it, Windows would not let me delete the Thumbs. I am able to delete everything in the folder word files and picture files but cannot delete the Thumbs. Thanks for your feedback.

Paul DiGaudio. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. MiniTool Partition Wizard provides a tutorial in this post. A thumbs. It is a hidden file and only visible when you uncheck Hidden items under the View tab in File Explorer.

However, some users encounter problems caused by thumbs. When you open a folder to check contents, Windows loads the Thumbs. If you try to delete the folder, you might find the operation fails and the error message shows the Thumbs.

To solve the problem, you can temporarily disable thumbs. You just need to open the folder and switch to Details view.