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[–] [email protected] 133 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Thumbs.db

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 seconds ago

I installed an old program the other day that added a Thumbs.db file from 2008 to every folder containing images as it extracted the program files to disk.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

ehthumbs_vista.db

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

https://www.thewindowsclub.com/how-to-disable-windows-thumbs-db-files-from-being-created this kills that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks but sadly my Windows peers won't do this because it's a manual step and they're already afraid of Windows knifing their computer with an update without making manual changes on top of that.