I know I can disable thumbnail caching system wide, but that seems too dramatic, I do enjoy the performance benefits of caching, just not for particular directories or drives. For example I sometimes mount my smartphone, and don't want Windows to keep any record of files it saw on there. Sometimes I mount an encrypted volume (using Veracrypt). Sometimes I scan my passport and delete the image file from my pc but don't want a thumbnail lingering somewhere. Clearing the cache afterwards for each of these cases is too much of a nuisance, I rather just prevent it from being created for certain directories or drives. For the record, I have already encrypted the whole system with Veracrypt, but just want to also prevent caching so that even when my system is unlocked it doesn't reveal anything about previously deleted files or previously mounted volumes. (I also already use Eraser to secure delete files and wipe their records from the Master File Table, but that's off topic).
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