Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer] "NoThumbnailCache"=dword:00000001 "DisableThumbnailCache"=dword:00000001 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer] "DisableThumbsDBOnNetworkFolders"=dword:00000001 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer] "NoThumbnailCache"=dword:00000001 "DisableThumbnailCache"=dword:00000001 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced] "DisableThumbnailCache"=dword:00000001 "NoThumbnailCache"=dword:00000001 ; Registry settings to disable thumbnail caching. ; run this with REGEDIT.exe thumbsdb.reg ; to re-enable caching, change all the dwords above to 00000000