ThumbsDisplay

You might have surely noticed that Windows is capable of showing a small preview of the selected file in Explorer. These are called thumbnails and are usually kept by Windows in a database called thumbs.db. In this regard, ThumbsDisplay comes with the means to help you view and print thumbnails inside such a database.

The application takes little time to install, and you can take it for a spin right afterwards. Don’t be scared if nothing shows up in the main window at first, because you need to set up source locations first. The interface is pretty straightforward, with most of the space representing the preview area, while functions are handled through dedicated menus.

In case you often failed to open up a thumbnails database, especially to extract data, this application can do it for you. An advantage is to know the exact location of the folder of file so you can quickly drop it over the window or load it through the browse dialog. On the other hand, the application can find all thumbnail databases for you in a target folder.

Multiple instances of the application can be brought up, and opening an existing database from search results also does this. All gathered items are displayed as thumbnails with corresponding name tags. You can switch the view mode to several size specifications.

Items can be individually selected, and you can even choose to export selected images to a variety of popular formats. On the other hand, you can choose to create a page setup in order to print a report of the database content, print out the entire list, or simply selected thumbnails, but at a larger size value without affecting quality too much.

All things considered, we can state that ThumbsDisplay comes in handy if you ever want to extract pictures from a thumbnail database at their original size and quality values. The interface is clean and intuitive, with a straightforward set of features which gets you quickly up and running.