Vista Picture Thumbnails

[metalboy]

I am having trouble with these Vista thumbnails. I know I can turn off thumbnails for all Icons. I want thumbnails to be shown for pictures I do not want to see a thumbnail for pdfs dwg and everything else. Does anyone know if this is possible? I would settle for disabling the desktop thumbnails if possible.

[browney595]

Do you mean the thumbnails on the start menu? they can be disabled using the start menu propertys and unchecking Show Window Previews (Thumbnails)

[metalboy]

No, the general thumbnails for all of windows explorer.

[oskingen]

You can disable it in the Visual effect windows from System properties > performance. Just untick it

[metalboy]

I realize I can turn off ALL thumbnails, I don't want that. I want thumbnails for pictures, not all my other files. I want pdfs to show the icon not a thumbnail of the actual file. In XP you had the option to display files as icons and certain folders that housed pictures you could choose display as thumbnails. Vista only lets you choose thumbnails for the entire computer or not as far as I know.

[oskingen]

I realize I can turn off ALL thumbnails, I don't want that. I want thumbnails for pictures, not all my other files. I want pdfs to show the icon not a thumbnail of the actual file. In XP you had the option to display files as icons and certain folders that housed pictures you could choose display as thumbnails. Vista only lets you choose thumbnails for the entire computer or not as far as I know.

I know it's possible by deleting some keys in registry

[metalboy]

That is what I was looking for. Do you happen to know what the keys are?

Edited May 22, 2008 by metalboy