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By Abhishek Ghosh November 15, 2010 5:18 pm Updated on November 15, 2010

Change the preview thumbnail quality to speed up Windows 7

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You can change the quality of thumbnails in Windows 7 and make a custom settings. The size can be changed easily by selecting from drop down menu in the extreme right top corner; but, you have to follow a trick to change the quality of the thumbnails.

Regarding size, here is a screenshot of default sized thumbnails:

change thumbnail size and quality-1You can change it easily:

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change thumbnail size and quality-2Problem is that, when you browse a folder with lot of pictures, it takes a long time to load them. You can easily reduce the time by decreasing the quality a bit. Here is how to do it.

Step 1

Click Start button; type “regedit” (without the quotation marks) and hit enter from keyboard:

change thumbnail size and quality-3It may ask for security prompt, just accept it. Registry editor will open.

Step 2

Find the following string:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer

change thumbnail size and quality-4Right click on the right sided pane and Create a 32 bit DWORD value called ThumbnailQuality, and set the value between 50 and 100:

change thumbnail size and quality-5

change thumbnail size and quality-6Double click the newly created value; i.e. ThumbnailQuality. Put any value between 50-100:

change thumbnail size and quality-7Step 3

99 percent work is done. To make it effective, you can either restart your computer or restart the explorer.

 

Note: You practically not see any change in quality of thumbnails if you are not using biggest sized thumbnail for preview; but will soon discover it is working by increase in thumbnail loading speed.

 

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  1. AvatarCorrine says

    November 26, 2010 at 7:10 pm

    Good information, as always, and a nice tip.

    I would caution anyone to always create a backup prior to any registry edits — even an addition such as this.

    Keep up the great work, Abhishek

  2. AbhishekAbhishek says

    November 26, 2010 at 7:18 pm

    Thank you very much Corrine for the appreciations and the link.

    Yes, I agree, I missed a big point which your experienced eye caught: Take a backup before hand.

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