Here's how you can manage thumbnail views on Windows 10

[Windows Central]

If you have no use for files thumbnails or got them disabled by mistake, use these steps to disable or enable the feature on Windows 10.
On Windows 10, File Explorer has the ability to display various sizes of thumbnail images for files, folders, documents, pictures, and videos to give you a quick preview of the content without having to open them.
Although it's a useful feature that adds a visual queue to find files faster without even looking at their names, it can take some system resources to render and cache all the previews, especially in locations with many images.

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