thumbnails

[Daniel M]

I have a problem with vista and a folder full of video clips (hundreds)

Whenever I open this folder, vista really struggles loading thumbnails for
every single video. This crashes the folder about a third of the time, and
if it doesnt crash, it means about 2minutes of thrashing the hdd to an
extent that any other work is impossible.... and all this for thumbnails
where 99% of them just show a black nothing anyway.

I've tried changing the view setting to "details" etc, but this still shows
a smaller thumbnail instead, and I have the same trouble with the hdd
thrashing.

Is there a way of turning off this thumbnails feature for selected folders?
Used to be able to do it in XP but damned if I can find it in vista.

Cheers
Daniel

 

[Guest]

Yea I hate that too. 16x16 thumbnails are pretty much useless and time
consuming for them to be generated. One thing that you can do is go to:

Folder Options->View
And tick the box that says "Always show icon, never thumbnails"

But that affects the ability to show thumbs in other places too. They need
to have a separate setting or something for details. So you can still have
the ability for thumbs but be able to turn them off in details.
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[Mike Williams]

I have a problem with vista and a folder full of video clips (hundreds)

Whenever I open this folder, vista really struggles loading thumbnails
for every single video. This crashes the folder about a third of the
time, and if it doesnt crash, it means about 2minutes of thrashing the
hdd to an extent that any other work is impossible.... and all this for
thumbnails where 99% of them just show a black nothing anyway.

I've tried changing the view setting to "details" etc, but this still
shows a smaller thumbnail instead, and I have the same trouble with the
hdd thrashing.

Is there a way of turning off this thumbnails feature for selected
folders? Used to be able to do it in XP but damned if I can find it in
vista.

The thrashing problem for folders full of large media files goes back a
long way in the Windows lineage. There's a registry key or two for media
handlers that you have to delete in order to rectify the issue. I know
it works, as it fixed the problem on Win2K but I lost the reference :-(.
Some focussed web searches may turn it up again.

 

[jonah]

Yea I hate that too. 16x16 thumbnails are pretty much useless and time
consuming for them to be generated. One thing that you can do is go to:

Folder Options->View
And tick the box that says "Always show icon, never thumbnails"

But that affects the ability to show thumbs in other places too. They need
to have a separate setting or something for details. So you can still have
the ability for thumbs but be able to turn them off in details.

AHA!

I been looking for that also, thumbnails are a big waste of time and
resources for me.

Ta Ecat

Jonah

 

[Guest]

ive noticed that my recorded tv shows an icon of mce instead of a preview of
the show or thumbnail on all of my dvr-ms files, and ive been wondering how
to turn them on to be thumbnails instead of icons? odviously it can be done
but how? if you can turn some off you can turn some on, right? all my other
movies produce thumbnails mpg, avi, etc, but not dvr-ms??? it doesnt show
thumbnails in wmp11 either for recorded tv? but the best thing ive found is
to just let it create the thumbnails, and make sure you dont have disk clean
erase them. because i have barely any hdd activity on my videos folder now,
and all my thumbnails show up, so it saves them all in the folder to be read.
just let it create the thumbnails in the middle of the night, and then you
dont have to worry about it anymore.

 

[Daniel M]

Ive turned off thumbnails altogether now Ive had this folder and vids on
the computer since beta2 release, its been opened dozens of times and
allowed* to find thumbnails for every file every time it was opened. I
assume the thumbnails would of been saved by now if it was going to -
perhaps its another bug on some machines

*by allowed I mean the computer was so unresponsive opening the folder
properly I couldnt do anything until it finished

Cheers and thanks for the help guys
Daniel