Share your brilliance with the world by clicking the Add a Tip button... write a tip and win money!

Tip Details Add a Related Tip
Rate as: Positive Negative

How to turn off thumbnail previews in Vista

If you want to turn on or off the thumbnail preview in Vista, here's how to do that. Go to the Control Panel and select "Folder Options" and then "View". You will see an option labeled "Always show icons, never thumbnails" with a checkbox next to it. If you check the box, this will turn off the thumbnail previews in Vista. If you want the thumbnail previews back, uncheck this box.
Rating: 100% positive, 1 Vote
Categories: windows Vista desktop customization
Added: on Mar 31, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Added By: an anonymous user

Comments on this Tip

Add a Comment
There are no comments for this tip
Your Comment:
(how to format)
Rate This Tip:

Verify Humanity:
Sorry, we know it's annoying, but please enter the characters shown in the image to the left so that we know you're an actual person and not an evil spammer. Thanks.
       

Related Tips

Change desktop icon size in Vista

100% positive, 2 comments - last added 4 hours, 24 minutes ago
– Tip added by an anonymous user on Jan 28, 2008 at 11:57 am

Compressing icons on your Windows Desktop

100% positive, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on Feb 15, 2008 at 7:46 am

Get rid of the Vista Sidebar

100% positive, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on Feb 08, 2008 at 11:38 am

Show Titles in Windows Explorer in Vista

100% positive, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on Nov 26, 2007 at 1:28 pm
Link: www.psscript.net

Shutdown Vista quicker

100% positive, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on Nov 05, 2007 at 9:16 am

Searching a folder in Vista

100% positive, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user 6 days, 15 hours ago

Display a custom message when logging in Vista

100% positive, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on Apr 20, 2008 at 9:29 am

Turn off Vista auto-detect on folders

100% positive, 0 comments
– Tip added by geekalot on Apr 09, 2008 at 7:17 am

Change the location of the Documents Folder in Vista

100% positive, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on Jan 14, 2008 at 8:34 pm

Customize the Windows Vista Sidebar

100% positive, 0 comments
– Tip added by kmart on Nov 10, 2007 at 6:52 am
Link: www.stoyanoff.info

Customize desktop icons in Vista

100% positive, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on Jul 20, 2007 at 7:11 am

Get the volume mixer in the Vista Taskbar

no ratings, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on May 06, 2008 at 11:28 am

Creating a taskbar shortcut to any directory

no ratings, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on Mar 24, 2008 at 1:45 pm

Better windows start menu

no ratings, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on Feb 18, 2008 at 10:48 am
Link: www.vistastartmenu.com

Rearrange the Windows taskbar

no ratings, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on Dec 31, 2007 at 8:40 am
Link: www.freewebs.com

Use your scroll wheel to resize icons in Vista

no ratings, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on Dec 26, 2007 at 3:24 pm

Customizing your Mac look and feel

100% positive, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user 1 day, 13 hours ago

Clear Vista Memory Cache

50% positive, 1 comment - last added 20 hours, 42 minutes ago
– Tip added by an anonymous user 2 days, 15 hours ago

Change System Restore Times in Vista

Categories: Windows Vista
100% positive, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on May 07, 2008 at 7:59 am

Set the Windows Mail storage folder

Categories: Vista windows email
no ratings, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on May 07, 2008 at 11:10 am

Related Categories