chasfh Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 I run Windows 7 Home. I'm trying to clean out the thumbnail images that show up in Windows Explorer, like these: I thought I was doing so when I ran CCleaner, but when I select Analyze the Thumbnail Cache, it shows nothing to clean: However, when I do the Disk Cleanup utility in Windows, it says there are thumbnails present, in this case, 145 MB worth: Is this right? Could CCleaner see nothing when Windows sees something? Are they talking about two different things? If CCleaner is not cleaning up the thumbnail images in Explorer, what is it cleaning up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators mta Posted December 7, 2016 Moderators Share Posted December 7, 2016 CC looks for cached files here; %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer perhaps Disk Cleanup looks for the thumbs.db files? Backup now & backup often.It's your digital life - protect it with a backup.Three things are certain; Birth, Death and loss of data. You control the last. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasfh Posted December 7, 2016 Author Share Posted December 7, 2016 CC looks for cached files here; %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer perhaps Disk Cleanup looks for the thumbs.db files? Are those cached files CC looks for the thumbnail pictures in Explorer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators mta Posted December 8, 2016 Moderators Share Posted December 8, 2016 I believe so. some of my current files in that locations are:- thumbcache_96.db, thumbcache_48.db, thumbcache_32.db, thumbcache_exif.db and so on. Backup now & backup often.It's your digital life - protect it with a backup.Three things are certain; Birth, Death and loss of data. You control the last. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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