I have enabled the Group Policy setting "Turn off caching of thumbnails in hidden thumbs.db files", but the Thumbs.db is still getting generated.
I have also enabling the Group Policy setting "Turn off caching of thumbnail pictures", but that has not helped to resolve the issue either.
I verified in the registry that the value data for the following key-value is '1'
Key: HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer Value:
DisableThumbsDBOnNetworkFolders
I would like to know
1) how to disable the creation of Thumbs.db when the aforementioned setup is not working?
2) why the server is not respecting this configuration?
Best Answer
I think the issue is that the clients are creating the thumbs.db files, not the server. Make sure your GPO is applied to all client OUs.