I have some scripts running on files located on a shared drive on a Win2003 Server.
I need to look at the images on any number of PC's in our network.. so every time I browse these folders, the clients create thumbs.db, which interferes with our scripts which move and delete folders, but usually cannot do so because of the "thumbs.db is in use".
This is true even when I close my folders/image preview on whatever client machine I am using.
So I'd like to disable thumbs.db altogether- but is there a way of doing it on the server, so I dont have to worry about the client machine registry settings etc?
Best Answer
There's not really a good way to control this "server side" with any mechanism other than Group Policy (which, ultimately, is just making a setting in the client computers' registries).
Have a look at the setting "Turn off caching of thumbnail pictures" under "Windows Explorer" under "Windows Components" under "Administrative Templates" under the "User Configuration" section of a Group Policy Object.