Frequent Question: How Do I Make Thumbnails Faster in Windows 10?
Contents If You Tend to Keep All Your Images and Pictures in One Folder, Another Clever Trick to Increase Thumbnail Loading Speed in Windows 10 Is to Change...
If you tend to keep all your images and pictures in one folder, another clever trick to increase thumbnail loading speed in Windows 10 is to change the thumbnail cache size. By default, the default icon cache size in Windows is around 500KB, which can quickly fill up.
How do I increase thumbnail cache?
Change the Thumbnail Cache Size
And as you might have guessed, the way is through the registry values. Once done, right click on an empty space and select New. Next, select New > String value and add the term, Max Cached Icons. Now add the value 4096 and hit the OK button.
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