Thumbs.db - any way to "redirect" it??

[WildHare]

This is probably an off-the-wall question, and I am not sanguine of a reply,but does anyone know of a way to tell Win2K to create it's folder-specific THUMBS.DB file somewhere OTHER than in the specific folder? I have a RAM drive for my temp files and other junk, and would like to be able to redirect THUMBS.DB there too - several folders with several hundred images each, and the system seems to take inordinate amounts of time to simply build the thumbs.db file when I want to see them in thumbnail view...

TIA for any ideas.

Jim

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[EonSpeed]

Stop Windows from saving the thumbnail cache (THUMBS.DB)

Intended For
Windows XP only

Windows XP, by default, shows the thumbnails view of certain folders, whether you want it to or not. Even if you choose Details (or some other view) as your default by going to Tools -> Folder Options -> View tab and click Apply to All Folders, Explorer may still revert back to the Thumbnails view. It does this for any folder in which it finds the THUMBS.DB file; naturally, if you delete this file, it won't happen again.
The problem is that Windows seems to repeatedly recreate the THUMBS.DB file automatically. Here's how to stop this from happening:


In Explorer, go to Tools -> Folder Options or open the Folder Options icon in the Control Panel.
Choose the View tab, and turn off the Do not cache thumbnails option.
Click Ok.
You can also change this setting in the Registry:


Open the Registry Editor (regedit.exe).
Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced.
Double-click the DisableThumbnailCache value, or go to Edit -> New -> DWORD value to create a new value by that name.
Enter 1 for its value.
Click Ok and close the Registry Editor when you're done; you'll have to log off and then log back on for this to take effect.

 

[EonSpeed]

This may help you in windows 2000 as well, but I can't check it right now since I am not an admin at this PC.

 

[WildHare]

E- thanks for the thought. My Tools/Folder Options/Advanced does not have the "Do not cache Thumbnails" option, for some reason, and I tried the registry DWORD, but it has no effect. With all the other goofy s/ware I have loaded, it's probably no wonder...I'll mess around some more and see if I can figure out why I can't turn off the cache..life goes on..

Jim

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