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Windows 10 Thumbnail Cache size limit

nettech 171 Reputation points
2021-01-06T02:28:53.097+00:00

Hi,

I am seeing that the Thumbnail Cache size is limited to 349MB, however I am seeing 700MB of Cached Thumbnails on my Windows 10 1909.

The SilentCleanup task shows a history of successful runs for the past 2 weeks.

Task Scheduler successfully finished "{8cb1b016-a198-4f80-b78f-9feb62ca6c83}" instance of the "\Microsoft\Windows\DiskCleanup\SilentCleanup" task for user "DOMAIN\Ivanidze".

Is it possible to disable the caching of Thumbnails or lower the limit to 10 - 20 MB?

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-files/after-fall-update-windows-10-puts-a-maximum-size/6ad0a1e7-38c0-4547-9b8b-f7f3906c3a12#:~:text=db%20(view%20as%20large%20icons,generated%20before%20deleting%20older%20ones.

This article has instructions on deleting the cache
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/5655-clear-reset-thumbnail-cache-windows-10-a.html

Thanks

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  1. Mico Mi 1,936 Reputation points
    2021-01-07T03:17:20.4+00:00

    Hi，
    There seems no known way to disable the Thumbnail cache in Windows 10 but I found it could work in Windows 7, you can check if it could work at your side:
    https://superuser.com/questions/2345/how-can-i-suppress-those-annoying-thumbs-db-files-in-windows-vista-and-windows-7
    Here are some methods to clear the Thumbnail cache in windows 10 and you can also try those in that doc you posted:
    https://www.winhelponline.com/blog/clear-thumbnail-cache-windows/
    Also there is a free tool called Icaros which uses ffmpeg to rapidly generate thumbnails for file explorer. It also has an option to set up its own user-controlled thumbnail cache. Maybe you can have a try.

    Thanks for your time!
    Best Regards,
    Mico Mi

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  2. nettech 171 Reputation points
    2021-01-09T23:28:31.503+00:00

    Thanks, we ended up using Winaero Tweaker to clean the thumbnail and icon cache

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