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Huge TIFF file bogs down Explorer thumbnail generation
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Mar 15, 20262426 viewsConfidence Score0%
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Problem
In one of my photo folders, I have a 3.8 GiB TIFF image file. With automatic thumbnail generation set, explorer completely locks up my system when accessing the folder. By inspecting the Resource Monitor, I was able to see that explorer was trying to read the TIFF file at normal priority. Disk IO w…
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Fix for: Huge TIFF file bogs down Explorer thumbnail generation
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You can disable thumbnail generation for only files, but this cannot be done by file size as of yet. The key is located at: Simply delete the key. You will want to back up the key first to restore this functionality if you want it back later on.
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