Policy

Turn off the caching of thumbnails in hidden thumbs.db files

Microsoft Windows

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Turn off the caching of thumbnails in hidden thumbs.db files
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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

User
Category
Windows Components > File Explorer
Supported on
MicrosoftWindows Vista SP1

Supported OS tags: WindowsVista

Turns off the caching of thumbnails in hidden thumbs.db files. This policy setting allows you to configure File Explorer to cache thumbnails of items residing in network folders in hidden thumbs.db files. If you enable this policy setting, File Explorer does not create, read from, or write to thumbs.db files. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, File Explorer creates, reads from, and writes to thumbs.db files.

Internal name
DisableThumbsDBOnNetworkFolders
Policy ID
7fda236ce64f
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

ScopeRegistry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled valueCopy
User
Path
Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer
Value name
DisableThumbsDBOnNetworkFolders
REG_DWORD
HKCU
1
HKCU
0
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD · User
Path
Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer
Value name
DisableThumbsDBOnNetworkFolders
Hive
HKCU
Enabled value
1
Disabled value
0

Policy elements

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