Turn off caching of thumbnail pictures
- Policy ID
- NoCacheThumbNailPictures
- Scope
- User Configuration
- Supported on
- At least Windows Server 2003 operating systems or Windows XP Professional
- Source
- Administrative Templates (.admx) for Windows 11 2026 Update (26H2) (version 1.0)
- Category
- Windows Components › File Explorer
Description
This policy setting allows you to turn off caching of thumbnail pictures.
If you enable this policy setting, thumbnail views are not cached.
If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, thumbnail views are cached.
Note: For shared corporate workstations or computers where security is a top concern, you should enable this policy setting to turn off the thumbnail view cache, because the thumbnail cache can be read by everyone.
Registry
UserHKEY_CURRENT_USER
- NoThumbnailCache-