- Type Disk Cleanup in the Start Search field and press ENTER to open the Disk Cleanup tool.
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- Select the system disk letter. (here, take system disk C for example)
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- All you need to do now is to check the thumbnails item in the " files to delete " column. Then, confirm the deletion.
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rebuilding Windows 7 Thumbnail caching method two :
- Enter the following address in the Address bar, carriage return.
%userprofile%appdatalocalmicrosoftwindowsexplorer
- Depending on the size of the icons, the following four . db files are stored in the folder, and you can delete them all.
Thumbcache_32.db
Thumbcache_96.db
Thumbcache_256.db
Thumbcache_1024.db
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After clearing these icon caches, and then opening the file, the thumbnail should return to normal.