Windows Xp: Why Does It Add Those Thumbs.db Files? Burn the .db

[Alegis 0]

Well, as much of a nuisance they may be, if you don't use other explorer programs like Total Commander you'll slow Windows Explorer by disabling it. Currently I only have troubles with it when I'm swapping some files, come back, and notice it stopped at the start because it wasn't sure if thumbs.db had to be moved as well. Sigh.

 

Briealeida, try to keep up or face the slowness .

my father thought thumbs.db was a spyware and made me believe it.As im incharge of maintaining security at our school computers,i had to go around delelting that thumbs.db in 43 computers to be exact.

it took me 2 weeks. Again i check they all will return

Haha, made me laugh.

[xboxrulz1405241485 0]

Notice from jipman:

Seems like there's no reason anymore to keep this thing open. The answer has been given and it doesn't seem to me that there'll be much to discuss about this subject.

Locking it up

Funny, it never got locked

xboxrulz

[yordan 10]

Gosh, I just got trapped : I did "select all", "add to zip", transferred the zip file to my free image host, clicked "unzip files", waited a lot, and received "forbidden filetype". I know that only .jpg files were allowed, but they could unpack the .jpg instead of refusing the whole bunch because of the thumbs.db file !

[FirefoxRocks 0]

If you don't view the files as thumbnails, then I don't think that Windows XP will create the Thumbs.db file in the folder itself.

[WeaponX 0]

Yep, this file gets created if you view your images in Thumbnail View in Windows XP.This thumbs.db file can grow quite large, especially if you have folders with a ton of images in them. I usually advise users to do a search for thumbs.db and delete all instances of it if previewing images in Thumbnail View is not a crucial thing to them. It will save some space.

[xboxrulz1405241485 0]

It won't grow THAT big. The biggest I've seen is only 10MB max and I have tons folders of photos in my storage.xboxrulz