Windows 10: Thumbnail Cache Rebuilding Automatically?

Hi. I have two SSDs in my laptop, one of which contains Windows and a few programs, and the other drive is Bitlocker encrypted and contains documents, pictures and games. I am noticing that just recently, my thumbnail cache has rebuilding itself quite frequently, often after a reboot. When I browse my files in Windows Explorer I have to wait for the thumbnails to be re-generated.

I read about this problem a while ago, where Windows would wipe the thumbnail cache as part of automatic maintenance. I installed a registry edit that was supposed to solve the issue. But I am still having the same trouble. Neither of the two drives in the laptop are anywhere close to being at full capacity. Any ideas?

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No thumbnails for pics/videos

Hello,

Suggest you to reset thumbnail cache.

Try these steps:

1. Right click on Start Button and select Command Prompt (Admin).

2. Type following commands one-by-one and press Enter after each:

taskkill /f /im explorer.exe

del /f /s /q /a %LocalAppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer\thumbcache_*.db

start explorer.exe

3. Reboot the machine, which should rebuild thumbnail cache.

Let us know if this helps!