I'm sure everyone using Windows XP has seen a small file in some directories called thumbs.db.

This file is a cache of the thumbnail pictures in a directory.

It speeds up the showing of thumbnails when you are viewing a folder in Thumbnail view.

The only drawback of the thumbs.db file is that it takes up disk space.

Although this space is very small in most cases, if you have a lot of thumbs.db files littering your hard drive you may be able to save some valuable space by removing them. Follow the steps below to turn off the creation of this file and delete the thumbs.db files that are on your hard drive.

To turn this feature off, do the following: