When you select thumbnails in windows 7, you can change borders for them. Different type of borders can be applied to thumbnails like straight border, photo border, and shadow border or no border. Make sure you have set icons view to medium icons, large or extra large icons. Here are few steps to change thumbnail border in windows 7.
- There are different .reg files available to change borders, for example, ‘No_Border-0.reg’ file is used for no border, ‘Drop_Shadow-1.reg’ file for shadow border, ‘Photo_Border-2.reg’ file used for photo border and ‘Video_Sprockets-3.reg’ file for video sprockets border. Download these files and run them. Log off or restart your system to see the changes.
- You can change via registry editor, open registry editor, for continuing the function, you will need to go to following location, and the location is ‘HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\image’ right click on treatment and click on modify. Next window will appear where you will have to type a value like 0, 1, 2, or 3 for no border, drop shadow, photo border and video sprockets respectively.
- Click ok and close the registry editor, now log off or restart your computer. The border is now changed to the value which you have entered.
