I want .jpg to show Thumbnails ONLY!

Okay I hope I have the right forum & here is my beef! I have Windows 7 Ultimate, & I do TWO things, program & work on websites. Now with websites, I process LOTS of images, I probably have 50,000 images or so.

Now as a programmer when I look at a file, I want to see a detail of the file, with it's extension, such as myfile.exe or myfile.dll. (modified date, size are good to see too)

BUT when I work with images, I want to see thumbnails, not details, not ocean water, the default image, or white paper background image. I know thumbnails take time to index, hence part of my problem. BUT you see when I work with a photo editor, I use Fireworks (but whether in Dreamweaver or Photoshop, I want to see the images so I can pick.

Lately, I am getting the green bar across the folder slowing down showing files, I am re-indexing now, which is taking time, but what is frustrating is that I can't get any work done, because I am constantly having to reboot to get Windows Explorer to work without the spinning circle & green bar progress.

Not sure what to do? Do I have too many images on the computer? If so, I never had this much of a problem with Vista?

Well, my re-index may be doing some good. Jury is out. My old pictures seem to be loading properly. Some of my websites I have designed are still showing the white paper icon, with the upper right corner tucked, but maybe when the index is done, it will fix. I guess I have a lot of reading up on indexing, file associations... to figure out.

I will make note of this, I did try Disk Cleanup. But will try your options. I just decided to try something that may work. I am doing a search of .jpg on my D: drive which has most images. I got a message to add more of D: to the index, which I am doing. Now I may be seeing more images populate with their 'true' image instead of the 'cheesy' windows picture or 'piece of crappy paper' icon. Thanks, I will update. :)

I am about to pull my hair out, and I need my hair! But I have printed out both documents you sent. And will make a note to make sure thumbnails is selected on the cleaner program!

My C: drive is 120 Gig SSD and 75 Gigs at least is free. The D: drive is 500 Gigs and about 60% is free on it. I do try to keep most images on D: drive. I do have some photo or video editing installed on C: drive, because I thought it was faster to process video on the solid-state drive. It would be nice to just save instead of rebuilding. I don't know when this started, but I have been trying to do a bit of video (movie building) to put together a crowd funding venture.:)

I am going to give up for a while. I am just forced to reboot, because my explorer window justs sits, with that damn green bar going across the top of the folder. I have to be able to see my images later this evening to work on a website. I will think of something later. Thanks all.

I am going to run Adware, Anti-Spy & Anti-Malware. Don't know what else to do. I have been starting a new website, but it is more difficult because the images I need to choose from are just white pieces of paper with the upper right corner folded down.