Thumbs Db Viewer

Explore and restore thumbnail databases, extract icons, compile reports, and generate PDF documents using this fast and approachable tool

This is the professional edition of Thumbs.db Viewer, an advanced software utility designed to help you restore thumbnail databases or extract icons to PDF files.

Thumbs.db Viewer was written to give the computer user tools to reconstruct Thumbs.db, ehthumbs.db, thumbcache.db (Windows Vista,Windows 7) and iconcache.db (Windows 8/10) database records. Thumbs.db is a hidden system file generated automatically by Windows when you view the contents of a folder in 'Thumbnail' or 'Filmstrip' view. Sep 29, 2010 Thumbs.db Viewer Post date: Sep 29, 2010 1:02:41 PM On Microsoft Windows operating systems (starting with Windows XP), a thumbnail cache is used to store thumbnail images for Windows Explorer's thumbnail view. Thumbs DB Viewer (Thumbs.db) - Chrome Web Store Thumbs DB Viewer (Thumbs.db).

It comes loaded with several powerful options for experienced users. For example, they can view and manage the content of Thumb.db files.

Simple and neatly organized interface

After a brief and uneventful setup procedure, you are greeted by a large window with a well-structured layout, representing Thumbs.db Viewer Pro's interface. Although it's outdated, it's quite easy to get around.

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Discover thumbnails, extract icons, generate reports, and create PDFs

You can explore thumbnail files from any part of the hard drive, find out containing icons and their available size, preview them within a built-in image viewer, as well as check out additional file and thumbnail details, such as header dimension, file extension, or external file reference. In addition, you can send any files to reports to investigate them, as well as create PDF documents from reports.

Evaluation and conclusion

We haven't come across any stability issues in our tests, thanks to the fact that the software application didn't hang, crash or prompt error messages. It had a good response time to commands, generated PDFs docs rapidly, and ran on a low amount of CPU and RAM, so it didn't hamper the overall performance of the computer.

On the other hand, Thumbs.db Viewer Pro's interface looks rudimentary and we expected more features and configuration settings from a professional tool. Nevertheless, you can test it for yourself and see if it meets your requirements.

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NOTE: You can also check out Thumbs.db Viewer.

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Thumbs.db Viewer Pro was reviewed by Elena Opris
2.0/5
LIMITATIONS IN THE UNREGISTERED VERSION
  • Only the first few thumbnails are displayed in each Thumbs.db file
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
  • Pentium Processor
  • 5MB Disk Space
  • VGA or Better Display
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  • add support for Windows 10
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Windows 8 32/64 bit
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Windows Vista 32/64 bit
Windows XP 32/64 bit
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tdv414demoinst.exe
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About

Thumbs Viewer allows you to extract thumbnail images from the Thumbs.db, ehthumbs.db, ehthumbs_vista.db, Image.db, Video.db, TVThumb.db, and musicThumbs.db database files found on various Windows operating systems.

Looking to open thumbcache_*.db files? Try my Thumbcache Viewer instead.

Usage

The main menu will allow you to save entries, export entries to a CSV (comma-separated values) file, remove entries from the list (the database is not modified), and map local files to hashed filenames (for databases created by Windows Vista and above).

To rename a file in the list, click once on a selected list item. An edit box will display to rename the file. Press Enter when you are finished.

Thumbnail Viewer

If you press Ctrl and click the Entry Size column, the entries will change from displaying in kilobytes, to simply bytes.

When an item is selected, an image window will pop up to preview the thumbnail. You can move the image around the window with the mouse or arrow keys. Each arrow key will move the image 1 pixel in that direction. By holding Ctrl and pressing an arrow key, the image will move 5 pixels. By holding Shift and pressing an arrow key, the image will move 25 pixels.

To center the image in the image window you can either press the Home key, or middle mouse button.

To scale the image you can press the + or - keys to zoom in or out respectively. If you have a mouse wheel, you can scroll forward to zoom in, or scroll back to zoom out. If you don't have a mouse wheel, you can hold the right mouse button down and click the left mouse button to zoom in, or hold the left mouse button down and click the right mouse button to zoom out. Confused?

You can also run the program from a command-line and supply the database file you wish to open or save.

Example to open: thumbs_viewer.exe Thumbs.db
Example to save thumbnails: thumbs_viewer.exe -o Output Thumbs.db
Example to save a CSV (comma-separated values) file: thumbs_viewer.exe -c example.csv Thumbs.db

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Requirements

This program requires the Visual C++ 2008 runtime library. If you don't have those files, search the Microsoft site for 'Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package'.