re: Question about 'Disable the automatic display of thumbnails in certain folders'
Thursday, August 17, 2006 at 1:34 pm
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Posted by magpie
(1 messages posted)
I have a similar problem as the original poster.
I use images and "folder pictures" a lot to help me identify my folders.
I recently bought a new computer and had Windows XP reloaded. I began getting rogue
images showing up as a folder preview. These images were often ones I had set other
folders to display. But they would randomly show up as previews for different folders
(that didn't even contain those images.) In some cases, the folders were on separate
harddrives on my computer.
I can usually use the tricks outlined above (using the folder properties window or
making a new folder) but I have one folder that is really stuck. It is showing a
subfolder image (an image inside a folder) in a quarter of the folder icon. The subfolder
that it is showing is not in that folder nor has it ever been. If I remove all subfolders
the folder defaults to blank as it should. I have identified one particular subfolder
that triggers this rogue image to appear. When I created a new subfolder with the
same name (this is a web site so I must keep my folders' names intact), the rogue
image reappeared (the new subfolder was empty) so it seems to be the name that triggers
the rogue image and not the folder or the contents.
Any suggestions besides reloading Windows? I have a son who can tinker with my computer
but he's not sure what Windows file might be giving us a problem.
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