Restore Photo Thumbnails in Windows 10
This is a guide on how to restore photo thumbnails in Windows 10.
Ever since I have installed Windows 10 on my primary devices there has been one minor annoyance that’s been driving me crazy. When I went into my “Pictures” folder instead of seeing the photo thumbnails I loved all so much I saw a bunch of icons like you see to the left.
If you’re like me then when you import pictures from your phone, camera or quad copter you rarely label them in the process. This wasn’t that big of an issue in the past since I could preview the pictures without actually having to open them.
Of course this was just a minor annoyance and I put it off until today. I decided that it was finally time to figure out how I could restore the photo thumbnails. It turns out that it’s relatively easy. If you want to restore yours then just do the following.
Open up Windows Explorer by clicking on this icon in the taskbar at the bottom of your screen:
When Windows Explorer opens up click on the “View” tab at the very top of the window. Then click on “Options” on the right to extend a drop down menu. Then click on “Change folder and search options”. That will open this window:
Click in the box next to “Always show icons, never thumbnails” to remove the check mark and then click “OK”.
After you have completed this process your computer should again show photo thumbnails. This makes it so much easier to quickly find the pictures you are looking for.
I kind of wonder why Microsoft didn’t just make this the default option like they have in the past. Maybe it has something to do with system performance… or maybe it’s some programmers practical joke… The world may never know.
Now that you have those photo thumbnails back check out the article below if you’re interested in learning how to change the size of them.
Technipages – Change Image Thumbnail Size
