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Kind of a weird question I guess :p Was just curious to if there is a way I can preload all thumbs.db files in directory (and its sub-directories) so that when I visit those folders later in explorer or media center, the thumbnails are already loaded.

Not so important for images, but would be handy to do once in a while for folders with lots of video files that seldom changes.

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You can "force" to create all the needed Thumbs.db if you do a search of all image files in your disk, and then set the view to "Thumbnails".

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Oh, nice trick. will have to try that out, hehe. Thanks! Will accept this as answer, since there haven't really been any other suggestions. and I kind of doubt there are any... – Svish Aug 21 '09 at 22:01
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Thumbs.db is a caching mechanism. It stores the thumbnails so the system doesn't have to scan every file in the folder to get it's thumbnail. There's no way to cache it beyond that.

E: even though you're seeing the thumbs.db files, I would double check that the system is actually using them (and updating/generating new ones) by making sure Folder Options->View->"Do not cache thumbnails" is unchecked. Beyond that, I don't think you've got any options.

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Well, I know they are the caching mechanism. Was just wondering if it was a way of pre-hitting all the files in all the folders so that everything was already cached when I started to browse through them =) – Svish Aug 3 '09 at 16:27
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