Explorer opens and reads every file in a directory for its thumbnails

[jondelac]

Hi... Windows explorer seems to read all contents of every file in a
directory when you enter a directory to display thumbnails of the files
in that directory... This causes too much network chatter...

Can this be disabled on the file server end? If so, how?

Jon

 

[Bob I]

Perhaps you are seeing this?

Indexing service adds data streams to image files
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/319300/en-us

 

[jondelac]

Perhaps you are seeing this?

Indexing service adds data streams to image files
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/319300/en-us

This could be a cause... regardless, I would like to know if there is a
way to detect this on the file server end and disable this feature via
the file server... so I dont have to change all the client machines in
the network.

Jon

 

[Bob I]

This could be a cause... regardless, I would like to know if there is a
way to detect this on the file server end and disable this feature via
the file server... so I dont have to change all the client machines in
the network.

Jon

I was under the impression that it was the server registry.