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    Any way to disable the thumbnails of video files???

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by prabhg, May 7, 2008.

  1. prabhg

    prabhg Notebook Evangelist

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    I dont want to disable the thumbnails altogather for pics and videos... I just want to disable them for video files as it takes lot of time for folder to load when there are lot of video files in it. Moreover, I just cleaned up my C: drive and thumbnails were taking abt 72MB of space. Is there any tweak to disable video files thumbnails.....
     
    prabhg, May 7, 2008
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  2. Thund3rball

    Thund3rball I dont know, I'm guessing

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    From here: http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/03/17/how-to-enable-or-disable-media-and-video-thumbnail-preview-in-windows-xp/


    Edit: Here's Vista

    http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/09/15/how-to-turn-off-and-disable-thumbnail-preview-in-vista/
     
    Thund3rball, May 7, 2008
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  3. prabhg

    prabhg Notebook Evangelist

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    Thund3rball, thanks for the effort, but as I said I only want to disable thumbnails for videos, not the pictures. Above given tip for vista will disable it completely leaving me no thumbnails for pictures either. Is there a solution for disabling only the videos thumbnails???
     
    prabhg, May 8, 2008
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    flipfire Moderately Boss

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    No that is the only easy way

    Oh cmon 72mb of thumbnails isnt that much of a big deal. You can set it so it doesnt cache the thumbnails

    Try winbubble or some desktop theme tweaking tool.
     
    flipfire, May 8, 2008
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    ttupa Tech Elitist NBR Reviewer

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    You could move your videos into one folder separate from the pictures, and then change the view option to icons instead of thumbs.
     
    ttupa, May 8, 2008
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    prabhg Notebook Evangelist

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    That sounds like a solution... thanks ttupa for the hint,, :cool:
     
    prabhg, May 9, 2008
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    SkyWraith Notebook Enthusiast

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    I had the same problem.
    so.

    this requires you to edit your registry - DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK - create a backup of anything you change!

    Navigate to
    HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\
    delete
    {c5a40261-cd64-4ccf-84cb-c394da41d590}

    on my system
    {c5a40261-cd64-4ccf-84cb-c394da41d590}
    is "Video Thumbnail Extractor", with InProcServer32 pointing to "%SystemRoot%\System32\mediametadatahandler.dll", I suggest you check it's the same before deleting it & make a backup first.

    *While this appears to have no side effects other than disabling the video thumbs & appears ok on my system. I make no guarantees, use at your own risk.
     
    SkyWraith, Jun 10, 2008
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