Win8 thumbnail display is confusing. How to recover

  

Win8 thumbnail display error recovery method is as follows:

When browsing pictures or video files in Windows 8 system. Sometimes the icon, the thumbnail will not display properly, usually if the situation is not poisoned, the relevant cache file is a problem.

Thumbnails displayed when browsing files are generally stored in a cache folder to facilitate faster browsing next time, but sometimes the cache file will crash and you will need to rebuild the cache file.

Operation steps:

Rebuilding Windows 8 thumbnail cache method:

1. In the search bar on the right side of the Windows 8 Metro desktop, type “Disk Cleanup” Find disk cleanup, which is different from Windows 7 system (requires right click on C drive - Properties - Disk Cleanup).

2, now you need to do is in the "to delete files" column, check the "thumbnails" item. Then, select “OK”.

Rebuilding Windows 8 thumbnail method two:

1. Enter the following address in the address bar and press Enter.

%USERPROFILE%AppDataLocalMicrosoftWindowsExplorer

2, according to the size of the icon, the following four .db files are stored in the folder, please delete them all.

thumbcache_32.db

thumbcache_96.db

thumbcache_256.db

thumbcache_1024.db

After clearing these icon caches, Open the file and the thumbnail should be back to normal.

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