Policy
Turn off caching of thumbnail pictures
Windows 11 25H2
Policy overview
Key metadata and intent for this policy.
Supported OS tags: Windows10, Windows10RT, Windows11, Windows7, Windows8, Windows81, WindowsRT, WindowsRT81, WindowsServer2003, WindowsServer2008, WindowsServer2012, WindowsServer2012R2, WindowsServer2016, WindowsVista, WindowsXP
This policy setting allows you to turn off caching of thumbnail pictures. If you enable this policy setting, thumbnail views are not cached. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, thumbnail views are cached. Note: For shared corporate workstations or computers where security is a top concern, you should enable this policy setting to turn off the thumbnail view cache, because the thumbnail cache can be read by everyone.
Registry values
How enabled and disabled states update the registry.
| Registry location | Type | Enabled value | Disabled value |
|---|---|---|---|
| HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\NoThumbnailCache | REG_DWORD | 1 | 0 |
Policy elements
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This policy has no additional user input fields.
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