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Turn off thumnails on a specific drive (Windows 7)

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Mar 15, 20264207 views
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Is it possible to prevent thumbnails from being generated on a specific disk drive? This would be useful for several reasons, one being performance (on optical drives), the other privacy (some information shouldn't be cached forever in an obscure location, e.g. scans of bank statements). I know the…

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Fix for: Turn off thumnails on a specific drive (Windows 7)

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In Vista you can tell it you don't want it to view a folder as images. Right click on a folder and select properties, then go to the "Customize" tab and change the selection to "All Files" and check the "Also apply this template to subfolders". Afte…

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