snowdrift Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 I know CCleaner takes care of XP thumbs.dat files, but does it address at all the Vista/Windows 7 centralized thumbnails cache? If not, why not? And is such an improvement planned? Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disk4mat Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 Vista's thumbnail cache is located under: %LocalAppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer Even if you take ownership of the files you still cant delete them. The diskcleanup tool has an option in there to delete the thumb cache files (seems to work as I just tested it). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowdrift Posted August 28, 2009 Author Share Posted August 28, 2009 Vista's thumbnail cache is located under:%LocalAppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer Even if you take ownership of the files you still cant delete them. The diskcleanup tool has an option in there to delete the thumb cache files (seems to work as I just tested it). So find a way like index.dat files... to delete the cache upon reboot if that's needed. Not addressing the issue is a terrible privacy oversight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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