How can I increase thumbnail quality to offset windows scaling?

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cal
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How can I increase thumbnail quality to offset windows scaling?

Post by cal »

I'm on a laptop with a 4k display and windows is scaling the display 300%, I think the thumbnail quality is smaller size and windows display it 3x larger?

And what do these settings do?
statusbar_view_thumbnail_size
max_thumbnail_size
thumbnail_load_size
void
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Re: How can I increase thumbnail quality to offset windows scaling?

Post by void »

Everything loads thumbnails as 256x256.
Everything will not stretch thumbnails larger than 1:1 by default.

Please try enabling thumbnail fill:
  • In Everything 1.5, from the Tools menu, click Options.
  • Click the Advanced tab on the left.
  • To the right of Show settings containing, search for:
    thumbnail
  • Select: thumbnail_fill
  • Set the value to: true
  • Click OK.


Please try loading thumbnails as 1024x1024:
  • In Everything 1.5, from the Tools menu, click Options.
  • Click the Advanced tab on the left.
  • To the right of Show settings containing, search for:
    thumbnail
  • Select: thumbnail_load_size
  • Set the value to: 1024
  • Select: max_thumbnail_size
  • Set the value to: 1024
  • Click OK.
1024 is the maximum load size.
Please be aware that each thumbnail will consume 3MB of RAM.



statusbar_view_thumbnail_size

The thumbnail size in logical pixels to use when clicking on the view thumbnails button in the status bar.

32 = small thumbnails.
64 = medium thumbnails.
128 = large thumbnails.
256 = extra large thumbnails.

Default: statusbar_view_thumbnail_size=128

You can also set this value in the Everything UI:
Right click the details/thumbnail button to the right of the status (if shown) and click a thumbnail size.
Everything will also remember the last thumbnail size when changing from thumbnails to details.



max_thumbnail_size

Set the maximum thumbnail size in logical pixels.
Must be greater than 0.
Anything larger than thumbnail_load_size will be stretched.

The default is: 256



thumbnail_load_size

Set the internal thumbnail size.
The largest supported thumbnail size is 1024x1024.

Set to 0 to use the default internal size (256x256). (default)
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