I'm running XP MCE 2005 on a Dimension E520. Dual-core Pentium D, 1 GB RAM,
256 MB Geforce 7300 LE, SB X-Fi Xtreme Music, 2 internal SATA hard drives. I
moved the location of my My Documents folder to the secondary hard drive.
One day I was modifying the folder pictures and folder types for folders
contained in my My Documents folder. After I applied the picture changes I
changed the folder type and checked the box to apply the template to all
subfolders. After applying this change and poking around a bit, I noticed
that EVERY folder shown in thumbnail view on the second drive showed one
picture (one of the ones I selected for the previous customizations) while
EVERY folder on the primary drive shown in thumbnail view displayed another
pic I used for the previous customizations. This was even applied several
folder levels ABOVE the folders where I made the customizations, including
the root of my C: drive. I did a LOT of searching around for a fix, or even
just some documentation of this issue. The only thing I found suggested
deleting ALL thumbs.db files off my system. I tried that to no avail. Then I
had an idea...one of the pics was stored in 1 folder and 1 folder only so I
searched my registry for the name of that file, deleted the 2-3 at the most
entries for that file, and voila! problem gone. I don't know if this is by
design or what, but I thought I'd pass it along in case it helps someone
else out.