Network Drive Picture thumbnails don’t appear in Vista
Monday, January 12th, 2009Recently I was moving my photos off my hard drive and onto a network drive for storage – but then I discovered when I looked at the folder in thumbnail view (View->Thumbnails from the menu) the picture would flash on then go to a standard icon for all the images. After hunting around it seems this is BY DESIGN for Vista – so heres how to turn thumbnails on – Click Start, type gpedit.msc and press ENTER. Go to the following branch - User Configuration | Administrative Templates | Windows Components | Windows Explorer. And then set the following to ENABLED - Turn off the display of thumbnails and only display icons on network folders. Log Off (or Restart) – and you are done.
