Set the Thumbnail That Appears on a Windows Folder or Album Art

Contributed by MickeyMouse June 19, 2005  
Tagged: Windows

If you have pictures in a folder, windows will automatically create a thumbnail with that picture or pictures on the folder. That little trick will allow you to set what picture is displayed on the thumbnail.

I like the idea that windows display folder thumbnails on the folder to help remind you what is in the folder. The problem is that sometimes windows just picks a bad picture for the thumbnail.

You can always manually set what picture is displayed on the folder.

Any folder that contains a file named folder.jpg will display that picture on the folder thumbnail.

If you are not seeing thumbnails, you probably just need to change to a thumbnail view. Browse to your folder and on the View menu, click Thumbnails.