Lightweight and portable application that you can use to easily extract and view thumbnails in .DB files via a user-friendly GUI
Thumbs Viewer is a tiny and portable app that gives users the possibility of extracting thumbnails from Thumb.db files.
Quick and easy deployment process
It contains intuitive options for all users, regardless of previous experience.
Since installation is not a prerequisite, you can drop the executable file in any location on the hard disk and just click it to run.
There is also the alternative to save the tool to a USB flash disk or similar storage unit, in order to run it on any PC with minimum effort and no previous installers.
Intuitive view of thumbnails
- Thumb.db Viewer allows browse and retrieve such images. Pro edition has all the features of Thumb.db Viewer and new functionality: The possibility to create custom thumbnail databases. The possibility to search thumbnail from Thumbs.db (thumbcache.db, iconcache.db) file in all thumbnail databases which were created already.
- Download Thumb.db Viewer for Windows to view the contents of Thumbs.db database records. Thumb.db Viewer has had 1 update within the past 6 months.
What's more, the Windows registry does not get updated with new keys, and files are not created on the HDD without your consent.
Jun 05, 2007 A Windows Explorer-style Thumbs.db web viewer. Does the thumbs.db only hold thumb images of common image format files. In windows explorer I can see lots of thumbs of my 'Solidworks' models and am looking for a way to access those to display in the way explorer does and to show thumbs of other file types would have been handy.
The user-friendly interface is made from a regular window with a plain and simple structure, where you can open Thumbs Database files using either the file browser or drag-and-drop support.
A list is populated with the name, entry size, sector index, and date of modification (in UTC) for each item that can be extracted. All or just selected files can be saved to the hard drive easily. Apart from the fact that items can be removed from the list, there are no other notable options provided by this app.
A few last words
Thumbs Viewer has a good response time and runs on low CPU and RAM, so it does not hog system resources. We have not come across any kind of issues during our tests, since the app did not hang, crash or pop up error dialogs. All in all, Thumbs Viewer serves its purpose.
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Thumbs Viewer was reviewed by Elena Opris
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Thumbs Viewer 1.0.28
add to watchlistsend us an update- runs on:
- Windows 10 32/64 bit
Windows 8 32/64 bit
Windows 7 32/64 bit
Windows Vista
Windows XP
Windows 2K - file size:
- 48 KB
- filename:
- thumbs_viewer_32.zip
- main category:
- Multimedia
- developer:
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For multimedia files used under the Microsoft Windows, the operating system automatically generated special images (cached thumbnails).
These thumbnails and information about the source files are stored in databases that are named differently for different versions of Microsoft Windows.
Thumbs.db Viewer Windows 10
If the media file or the entire folder is deleted, the thumbnail will remain in the database files.
Our program was written to give the computer user tools to comfortable reconstruct database records.
Thumb*.db Viewer allows browse and retrieve thumbnails stored into:
thumbs.db, ehthumbs.db (Windows XP and early versions);
thumbcache_idx.db, thumbcache_32.db, thumbcache_96.db, thumbcache_256.db, thumbcache_1024.db, thumbcache_sr.db (Windows Vista, Windows 7);
thumbcache_idx.db, thumbcache_16.db, thumbcache_32.db, thumbcache_48.db, thumbcache_96.db, thumbcache_256.db, thumbcache_1024.db, thumbcache_sr.db, thumbcache_wide.db, thumbcache_exif.db (Windows 8);
iconcache_idx.db, iconcache_16.db, iconcache_32.db, iconcache_48.db, iconcache_96.db, iconcache_256.db, iconcache_1024.db, iconcache_sr.db, iconcache_wide.db, iconcache_exif.db (Windows 8);
thumbcache_idx.db, thumbcache_16.db, thumbcache_32.db, thumbcache_48.db, thumbcache_96.db, thumbcache_256.db, thumbcache_768.db, thumbcache_1280.db, thumbcache_1920.db, thumbcache_2560.db, thumbcache_sr.db, thumbcache_wide.db, thumbcache_exif.db, thumbcache_wide_alternate.db, thumbcache_custom_stream.db (Windows 10);
iconcache_idx.db, iconcache_16.db, iconcache_32.db, iconcache_48.db, iconcache_96.db, iconcache_256.db, iconcache_768.db, iconcache_1280.db, iconcache_1920.db, iconcache_2560.db, iconcache_sr.db, iconcache_wide.db, iconcache_exif.db, iconcache_wide_alternate.db, iconcache_custom_stream.db (Windows 10).
The new release of Thumb*.db Viewer: version 4.1.
This version represents a significant improvement.
The program was completely rewritten, and is much more usable now.
Many new features have been added, including:
modern interface;
multilingual support;
resizable thumbnails gallery (from 1 up to 50 pictures per page);
Thumbs.db Viewer Pro
built-in thumbnail viewer;
customized presentation of founded files, pages and thumbnails.
Thumb*.db Viewer allows:
collects all the Thumbs.db, ehthumbs.db, thumbcache_*.db, iconcache_*.db files in and below the specified folder;
extracts and views all or selected thumbnails as an HTML representation;
views the thumbnails in full size or as the best fit for the program`s window;
Thumbs Db File Viewer
manipulate with images;
using a heuristic algorithm, the program can search for JPG graphics in files of any format.
Thumbcache Viewer
disassembled and displaying headers of thumbnails, thumbcache files and entries for thumbcache_idx.db;
Free Db File Viewer
displaying image details, etc.