Windows Thumbnail cache or Thumbs.db files are hidden data files in the Windows operating system, which contain small images, displayed when you view a folder in “thumbnail” view, as opposed to tile, ...

Some files such as the Thumbs.db file can be disabled in Windows, so if you have a personal PC with Windows on it (ie, VMWare or Parallels), you can set it to prevent caching of thumbnail previews; ...

If you’re still using Windows XP, you may have noticed that folders of digital images usually contain a file called Thumbs.db. You’ve probably wondered what it is and whether you can safely delete it.

If you have ever found thumb.db files in a Network folder where several computer users are connected to each other and access the same folders, you know it’s hard to delete them as they are read as ...