The file thumbs.db is a thumbnail cache. Windows uses thumbs.db to store thumbnail images for Windows Explorer’s thumbnail view. When a folder with images and movies is opened for the first time, Windows creates thumbnails for all these media files. The thumbnails are saved into one file, thumbs.db. This speeds up the display of images as the smaller images do not need to be recalculated every time the user views the folder.
Posts under ‘Windows XP’
How to fix a black Windows logon screen
Last week one of my servers had an strange issue. After pressing CTRL-ALT-DELETE to log on, the log on window turned almost completely black (as you can see in the screenshot).
Google gave me the answer, but I still have no idea how this could have happened.
Fix “An OLE registration error occurred” in Windows and Outlook 2007
Since a week, all of a sudden, I had this very strange problem that I could not move email items from the message list pane to a directory in the left pane. I got this error:
“Can’t copy the items. An OLE registration error occurred. The program is not correctly installed. Run Setup again for the program”
KB968930 fails at installation with Automatic Updates
I recently faced the problem that I could not install KB968930: Update for Windows XP. Installation failed.
This update contains the Windows Management Framework Core.
This installation failure only occured on a desktop computer, which had Windows XP Sp3 workstation and the Exchange 2007 Management Console installed.
Waiting for groupmanager.e at shutdown or reboot
After a couple of weeks working with Windows 7, a message suddenly appeared during shutdown of my computer:
Waiting for groupmanager.e
Because of my intuitive brain, I guessed groupmanager.e should be read as groupmanager.exe. A quick search on Google Bing (as I’m a Microsoft minded technician :) ) will lead you to hundreds of pages remarking groupmanager.exe to be a trojan horse.