

Hover Zoom was recently caught introducing unethical features (injecting adverts and affiliate links into webpages you view, tracking your browsing activity) ‘by the backdoor’ – see the warning here. Important: there is a good reason to use Hover Free and not Hover Zoom (the extension upon which it is based). There is no Chrome version of TZP but there is a very close, and equally useful, equivalent – Hover Free for Chrome. This is all very fine if you only need to zoom into a couple of thumbnails per page but what if you want to view lots of full size images? That’s an awful lot of clicking back and forth…Įarlier we looked at Thumbnail Zoom Plus (TZP) for Firefox – a powerful image zoom add-on that does a great job of displaying a full-size image popup as you hover over a thumbnail. To view a full image you would click the thumbnail (which may load in its own tab) then have to click Back to return to the original page (or perhaps click on a close ‘x’ icon). Open the Windows Explorer by pressing Windows Logo + E keys simultaneously (Alternately, you can open ‘This PC from the desktop shortcut or Start menu).Thumbnails are a handy way to view lots of images in one go – sites like Amazon, Imgur, Reddit, Twitter and Google Images make heavy use of thumbnails. To manually clear and reset thumbnail cache from the user profile, do the following:. Manually clear and reset thumbnail cache.

Clear thumbnail cache using Command Prompt.There are at least three ways to clear and reset the thumbnail cache on Windows 10. By default, these items remain hidden, and one needs to unhide to see them. You can access the same by navigating to C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer (assuming “C” is your Windows installation directory, if you have installed Windows on other than C:\ drive, then the path will change accordingly). On Windows 10, all the thumbnail cache files are stored under profile. These thumbnail caches enable Windows 10 to show thumbnails display quickly. This means, whenever you open a folder containing videos, documents, or pictures in thumbnail supported view, Windows uses thumbnails saved in the thumbnail cache instead of every time generating new for them. Windows 10 generates and stores a copy of thumbnails for all documents, videos, and images for faster access so they can be displayed without any delay when you open a folder with one of the thumbnails supported view. Clear thumbnail cache via Command Prompt.Ī Thumbnail cache is a copy of all of your documents, pictures, and video thumbnails stored in a file.Clear thumbnail cache using a third-party program.Clear thumbnail cache using Disk cleanup.

