After disabling thumbnail previews with group policy, it’s impossible to enable thumbnail previews using other methods above until you set this policy back to Not configured. You can see the changes by refreshing your folder in Windows Explorer.Select Enabled to turn off thumbnail previews, or select Not configured to turn on thumbnail previews.Double-click the “ Turn off the display of thumbnails and only display icons” policy on the right pane. Open Local Group Policy Editor and browse to: User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> File Explorer.Method 4: Disable or Enable Thumbnail Previews via Group Policy You only need to refresh your File Explorer to see the changes immediately.Change the value data to 1 to hide thumbnails or 0 to show thumbnails, and click OK.On the right pane, double-click the DWORD value IconsOnly to modify. Under the Files and Folders tree heading, check (tick) the box next to Always show icons, never thumbnails option. The Folder Options dialog window will appear. In the pull down menu, click on Folder and Search Options. Open Registry Editor and navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced. In the Windows Explorer window, click on the Organize button on the menu/shortcut bar.Method 3: Disable or Enable Thumbnail Previews via Registry Editor Uncheck or check the “ Show thumbnails instead of icons” option under the Visual Effects tab, and click OK. The Performance Options window will open.Press the Windows key + R keyboard shortcut, then type SystemPropertiesPerformance in the Run box and press Enter.Method 2: Disable or Enable Thumbnail Previews via Performance Options Click on the View tab and check the option “ Always show icons, never thumbnails” to disable thumbnail previews, or uncheck it to enable thumbnail previews.Go to the View tab and click the Options button in the Ribbon menu. Method 1: Disable or Enable Thumbnail Previews via Folder Options
In this tutorial we’ll show you 4 ways to turn off or on thumbnail previews in File Explorer on Windows 10 / 8 / 7. Is there any way to disable video and image thumbnail preview in Windows 10? Thumbnail previews are useful since they let you preview Windows files without opening them, but it might slow down folder navigation process.