Thumbs to Icons

CCleaner for Windows
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After I run CCleaner it changes my image thumbnails to icons. It is a real bother

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I'm assuming that you mean in File Explorer, and not inside some viewing app?

It sounds as though your 'Thumbnail Cache' is being cleared, you can prevent Custom Clean doing that by unticking it. 

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You can't customise it in Health Check which will always clear the Thumbnail Cache.

Clearing the thumbnail cache just means that Windows has to 'rebuild' it again, ie. it's been cleaned out and gets automaticaly refreshed with newly created thumbnails. 

That should happen fairly quickly when you open the folder but if there are a lot of images,or you are doing something else that's using a lot of CPU, (or just have a slow computer) then it can take a bit longer.

You can sometimes see that happening when you open a folder of images for the first time after a cleaning and watch as the icons automatically change to thumbnails.

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53 minutes ago, nukecad said: 
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		I'm assuming that you mean in File Explorer, and not inside some viewing app?
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		It sounds as though your 'Thumbnail Cache' is being cleared, you can prevent Custom Clean doing that by unticking it.


		<a data-fileid="18807" href="<fileStore.core_Attachment>/monthly_2024_05/image.png.a38d1d26e441963ce89eee97b7b5af6f.png" title="Enlarge image" data-fileext="png" rel=""><img alt="image.png" class="ipsImage ipsImage_thumbnailed" data-fileid="18807" data-ratio="108.16" width="343" src="<fileStore.core_Attachment>/monthly_2024_05/image.png.a38d1d26e441963ce89eee97b7b5af6f.png" /></a>
	</p>

	<p>
		You can't customise it in Health Check which will always clear the Thumbnail Cache.
	</p>

	<p>
		Clearing the thumbnail cache just means that Windows has to 'rebuild' it again, ie. it's been cleaned out and gets automaticaly refreshed with newly created thumbnails.


		That should happen fairly quickly when you open the folder but if there are a lot of images,or you are doing something else that's using a lot of CPU, (or just have a slow computer) then it can take a bit longer.
	</p>

	<p>
		You can sometimes see that happening when you open a folder of images for the first time after a cleaning and watch as the icons automatically change to thumbnails.
	</p>
</div>

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Seems to work for me but I still had to restart the computer after making the change (re. thumbs) and running CCleaner.

Thanks for your prompt and helpful reply.

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I'm not sure that a restart of the computer should be needed.

Usually if Windows does need a kick to rebuild the Thumbnail cache then closing and reopening File Explore is enough of a nudge. 

But of course all computers are setup differently to a greater or lesser degree, that's why they are <em>Personal</em> Computers (PC's).

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Some of the image files had not recovered but did with the re-start. I fully agree with your definition of a PC! Thanks again and have a good day, Nukecad.