thumbnail settings question Vista Bugs and Problems Discuss thumbnail settings question in the Windows Vista forums; I'm having a problem with thumbnails in a giant folder of video files eating up so much cpu (loading the thumbnails) when I open the folder that it's ...

[karkalec]

I'm having a problem with thumbnails in a giant folder of video files eating up so much cpu (loading the thumbnails) when I open the folder that it's pretty much unusable--takes 10 minutes to load them, then media player freezes. I have a dual core 2.4 ghz with 3 gigs of ram. What I'm wondering is if there's some way to set thumbnail options for certain types of files or certain folders only. When I selected "always show icons, never thumbnails" (Organize/Folder and search options/view, top option) the problem went away and performance was good. The problem is, that setting affects all files in every folder on the computer, including both hard drives and all types of media. This is a pain for jpegs in particular, to not be able to see what they are.

Is there a way to...

a) set folder options specific to a folder which do not affect other folders

or

b) set thumbnails to load on jpegs but not video files

thanks in advance for helping me solve this annoying problem.

justin