How to refresh thumnails in file folder

[Martin]

A bunch of photo's show wrong thumbnail images (they were edited/rotated). In
XP you were able to refresh the thumbnails. How do you do that in Vista?

 

[Charlie42]

A bunch of photo's show wrong thumbnail images (they were edited/rotated).
In XP you were able to refresh the thumbnails. How do you do that in
Vista?

In Explorer, hit F5, or click the refresh button (the two swirling arrows).

Charlie42

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

I don't see a thumbnail View setting in Vista. You must be looking at the
files in some third party app. Explorer doesn't have a 'Thumbnail' view, and
the various sized icons all update automatically.

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[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Click Start, type cleanmgr and press ENTER
Click My files only
Select the system drive letter from the drop-down list
Uncheck all the entries except Thumbnails
Click OK

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A bunch of photo's show wrong thumbnail images (they were edited/rotated). In
XP you were able to refresh the thumbnails. How do you do that in Vista?

 

[Martin]

In Explorer, hit F5, or click the refresh button (the two swirling arrows).

Yeah, been there, tried that. Would be so simple but it is not. They do not
refresh.

 

[Martin]

I don't see a thumbnail View setting in Vista. You must be looking at the

files in some third party app. Explorer doesn't have a 'Thumbnail' view, and
the various sized icons all update automatically.

Well, in my vista there IS a "thumbnail view". But you are correct, in the
interface these are called icons ... and they do NOT always refresh if the
underlying file (photo) changes. Otherwise I would not have asked the
question.

 

[Martin]

You can use Disk Cleanup to clean the Thumbnails to have Vista reload

them. This will refresh them.

Grrrrmbl ... how amazingly ... Simply throw away the car if the ash tray
gets filled up. This will probably work, but is is not the kind of elegant
solution we had in XP.

 

[Martin]

Click Start, type cleanmgr and press ENTER

This will probably do the job. Same sort of solution as the one from 'Brink'
above.
But where is the simple Refresh Button???? I refuse to believe this is the
only way.

 

[Charlie42]

Yeah, been there, tried that. Would be so simple but it is not. They do
not
refresh.

Then I am afraid I will have to second the advice from Brink and Ramesh.
Force Vista to reload the thumbnails, using the Disk Cleanup tool.

Charlie42