Posts tagged: #thumbcache

Byte-level layout of Windows thumbcache and iconcache databases from Vista to Windows 11: file header, per-version cache types and the cache entry structure.

What thumbcache_*.db files prove in an investigation, how to recover deleted thumbnails, and the caveats to state before a thumbnail goes in a report.

Thumbcache Viewer, Vinetto, forensic suites and browser-based parsing compared: platforms, formats, deleted-entry recovery and file-name mapping.