windows 8 Centralized Thumbnail Caching in Windows 8 disabled by default?

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Hi everyone,

I have recently installed Windows 8 (RTM) and noticed that it generates thumbnail cache files locally ("Thumbs.db" file created in the local folder, as it used to be with Windows XP) instead of keeping the thumbnail caching features centralized as was the

case with Windows Vista/7 (e.g. in the %LocalAppData%MicrosoftWindowsExplorer folder for Windows 7).

Is there any way to change the thumbnail caching feature backed to a centralized fashion (e.g. by keeping some thumbcache*.db files somewhere in the user folder)? Some registry values

changes, maybe?

Just a couple of things: I am talking about a LOCAL folder (no network share with write access) and I do not want to disable thumbnail caching or to hide system files as some people might suggest.

Regards,

Emmanuel

 

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