David Geer Talks Tech
Monday, September 12, 2005
Thumbs down (out with thumbnails!) Courtesy of http://www.GeerCom.com.
Geer Communications - your on time technology writer!
Welcome!
If you keep getting a thumbnail view of folder items by default - pictures in little squares - and you don't like it, the linked article tells you how to stop it, permanently. Hooray!
The bad news is that, like so many help articles on the Internet, a certain amount of knowledge is assumed for you to be able to use the information.
Every now and then, I like to blog a dumbed down version of such instructions so most anyone can use them.
Here we go!
Double left click on the My Computer icon, usually found in the upper left hand corner of your desktop (the screen you are at when you first boot the computer). It looks like a computer and is labeled My Computer.
In the upper menu in the newly opened window, left click on Tools and then on Folder Options.
Left click on the View tab. In the window under Advanced settings, put a check mark in the box next to Do not cache thumbnails. (Due to a type-o, this is actually the opposite of what the instructions in the article tell you to do.) Click Apply and OK.
Ignore the instructions for doing this in the Registry. You're done!
Best,
David Geer - your on time technology writer!
Geer Communications
Geer Communications - your on time technology writer!
Welcome!
If you keep getting a thumbnail view of folder items by default - pictures in little squares - and you don't like it, the linked article tells you how to stop it, permanently. Hooray!
The bad news is that, like so many help articles on the Internet, a certain amount of knowledge is assumed for you to be able to use the information.
Every now and then, I like to blog a dumbed down version of such instructions so most anyone can use them.
Here we go!
Double left click on the My Computer icon, usually found in the upper left hand corner of your desktop (the screen you are at when you first boot the computer). It looks like a computer and is labeled My Computer.
In the upper menu in the newly opened window, left click on Tools and then on Folder Options.
Left click on the View tab. In the window under Advanced settings, put a check mark in the box next to Do not cache thumbnails. (Due to a type-o, this is actually the opposite of what the instructions in the article tell you to do.) Click Apply and OK.
Ignore the instructions for doing this in the Registry. You're done!
Best,
David Geer - your on time technology writer!
Geer Communications
