ThumbViewer - A thumb.db viewer

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pplknownothin · #1 Post by **pplknownothin** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 4:15 pm

Description from site:
Thumbnail Database Viewer enables you to view thumbnail cache which is used by Windows to speed up the display of thumbnails in folders (thumbs.db files). The cache stores all thumbnails created in a folder even if the original image has been deleted.

http://www.itsamples.com/software/tdv.html

Writes settings to: None

How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch ThumbViewer.exe.

License: Freeware

System Requirements: WinXP
(.NET Framework 2.0)

I am Baas · #2 Post by **I am Baas** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 5:02 pm

Requires .NET Framework 2.0

pplknownothin · #3 Post by **pplknownothin** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 6:22 pm

forgot to add that.. had it on the but it got erased when i was editing it

garbanzo · #4 Post by **garbanzo** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 8:56 pm

been looking for something like this, thanks for posting.

glad i have a thinstalled .NET 2.0 launcher

castman · #5 Post by **castman** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 9:22 am

What's the use since there's no editing of these files =P ?

I discovered that it contains the folder thumbnal inside, thanks!

However when I apply the following tweak:

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer]
"ThumbnailSize"=dword:00000100
"ThumbnailQuality"=dword:0000064

The folder thumnail (not the file thumbnails) looks horrible, doesn't matter if I delete Thumbs.db.
It just makes an Explorer issue more clear.

castman · #6 Post by **castman** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 10:34 am

I discovered that the Folder Thumnail is a Folder Icon by quickly changing the icon size through Styler ToolBar.

And also the Icon Group ID: 4 (through IconExtract).

But I couldn't change the Icon Group with Resource Hacker for some reason (I tryed using GIMP that didn't work).

It messes up the Ordinal Names and doesn't recognize the dimensions. And trying to replace a single Icon is even worse.

I will maybe try using these icon editor available in the database. Or maybe someone who already solved this issue, could tell me?

dot · #7 Post by **dot** » Fri May 15, 2009 3:51 am

There's an additional version 2 now on that page that no more requires .NET framework. So, the program is very portable.

BTW, as the program doesn't do a search of its own, I use the search tool "Everything" to search for any thumbnail databases and simply drag any found entry from "Everything's" window into "Thumbnail Database Viewer's" window to see the content of each database.

castman · #8 Post by **castman** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 2:10 pm

http://www.forensicswiki.org/wiki/Thumbs.db

There is also a program called Windows File Analyzer which does the same thing but includes other files.

Dwel · #9 Post by **Dwel** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 6:56 pm

garbanzo wrote:glad i have a thinstalled .NET 2.0 launcher

Where do i get this ? ive searched, prolly not in the right spot.

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