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Background
I regularly use Windows Explorer to browse my drives and data, and I notice little freezes and hiccups at times. It's especially noticeable when browsing local or network folders with lots of video files (AVI, MKV, MPG, etc).
I almost always browse in the Details view, and the "Do not cache thumbnails" option is turned on. Even though I'm in Details mode, I'm convinced the sluggishness is due to Windows trying to generate thumbnails for the video files, so I want to disable thumbnail generation for these files.
I occasionally use Thumbnails view for browsing image files, so I don't want to disable all thumbnails. But for future reference, this might be good to know.
Questions
- How do I disable thumbnail generation for all non-image files?
- How do I disable thumbnail generation for all files?
- How do I disable thumbnail generation for one specific filetype?
Finally, how do I undo (re-enable thumbnails) once I've performed one of the above?
if necessary, assume that i'm familiar with regedit for purposes of the one specific filetype part. – quack quixote – 2010-04-21T02:01:05.797
Bad question quack. How are you going to select one answer if you get your three questions answered by three different persons? I added my 2c to Hugh's answer below – Nifle – 2010-04-21T10:00:58.947
4@nifle: hey man, i know the mods around here... if i post them as three separate questions they'll close two as duplicates and yell at me for posting three highly-related questions. – quack quixote – 2010-04-21T10:11:39.780
Dang quack, you almost made me choke on my coffee with that one – Nifle – 2010-04-21T10:36:51.047