You have been using windows for a while and suddenly you find that there is an extra file called thumbs.db which appears beside all of your folders. And no matter how many times you delete it, it keeps returning.
What is Thumbs.db file?
In which Windows versions you can find it?
How much space could it take?
You may not believe. Sometime it could take a few hundred MBs.
How can you get rid of it?
Open My Computer.
Select Tools menu -> Folder Options.
Go to the View tab.
Check "Do not cache Thumbnails" and Apply.
What is the advantages and disadvantages of removing it?
Advantages:
You can save hard disk space.
You’ll never see those little hidden file here and there.
Disadvantage:
What is Thumbs.db file?
Thumbs.db is a file used by Microsoft Windows which stores a cache for Windows Explorer’s thumbnail view. That is saved in each directory which contains pictures.
In which Windows versions you can find it?
You can find it in Windows XP. I'm not sure in Windows 9x. In Vista, Microsoft replaced thumbs.db files with a centralized thumbnail database file named thumbcache_xxxx.db which is located in \Users\[UserName]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer.
How much space could it take?
You may not believe. Sometime it could take a few hundred MBs.
How can you get rid of it?
Open My Computer.
Select Tools menu -> Folder Options.
Go to the View tab.
Check "Do not cache Thumbnails" and Apply.
Advantages:
You can save hard disk space.
You’ll never see those little hidden file here and there.
Disadvantage:
If you browse a folder that contains many image files with moderate file size, it will take a long time for that folder to load because the thumbnail images have not been cached in Thumbs.db file.
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