Inscrease Thumbnail Speed in Windows 7

SoildSnake · 11 Aug 2010 at 21:04

Why do the thumbnails take so long to load when using windows 7, with XP on the same powerful PC it was instant. After a fresh install it would take long but then every other time it was straight away regardless of how many files in a folder. Is there a way to speed them up? The green bar is slow as hell on any drive i use; can i just disable this feature / reduce thumbnail quality etc? I have diabled drive indexing on a drive by drive basis via my computer / right clicking is there an overall setting that i need to change?

Thanks

Hudzy · 11 Aug 2010 at 21:31

Hmm. It could be the drives turning off when they're idle and you're actually having to wait a few seconds for it to come back up. I don't think XP did that but Vista and 7 do by default.

Check your power management settings.

Other than that I'm not sure what would cause it to be slow after the first build of the cache. You could try deleting the thumbnail cache to see if there's a problem with it.

SoildSnake · 12 Aug 2010 at 00:41

Its not the power since i have the drives on all the time.

How do i go about deleting the thumbnail cache?

SiriusB · 12 Aug 2010 at 00:52

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=delete+thumbnail+cache

Hudzy · 12 Aug 2010 at 15:00

CCleaner also has a non-default option for clearing it.

SoildSnake · 15 Aug 2010 at 16:45

Actually C Cleaner clears them by default so that was the issue. Thanks for that; though i noticed that eventually the same issue occurred even though i have de-selected that option in C Cleaner. I suspect it is to do with the number of folder view option / cache's windows remembers? I used tweak UI for XP to increase this number how do i do this for windows 7; thanks

SoildSnake · 16 Aug 2010 at 17:51

Hudzy · 16 Aug 2010 at 18:42

SoildSnake said:
Actually C Cleaner clears them by default so that was the issue.

Ah so it does. I'd unchecked that a long time ago then and thought it was default.

I remember Vista having issues remembering above a certain number of folder settings but I haven't had any issue in 7. I just went through some of my folders, high res images, a few hundred per folder and there's a couple of seconds loading for the thumbnails but nothing like recreating it.