Back in the XP days, Windows would generate a thumbs.db file to cache your
thumbnails.  This was easy enough to stop when I did not want it because
there was a folder option to disable it.  Now, in Vista, it seems thumbs.db
is back with a vengeance.

There is a folder on my system that I do constant work in, and often I zip
up this whole folder and feed it to a program (that can read zip files and
process each file inside).  When I zip up the folder however, Vista creates a
thumbs.db file inside, which in turn causes the program that reads the zip to
error because it has no clue what thumbs.db is.  I can view the folder with
hidden file showing ON and see no thumbs.db file, so I can only assume the
zipping process itself is generating the file.

How do I disable this?  I'm already getting sick and tired of deleting
thumbs.db every time I zip the folder.  It isn't even a folder of images,
just data and text files.  I've looked around and haven't found an answer
(and supposedly Vista doesn't even use thumbs.db files in every folder, which
makes this problem all the more baffling), but I would really like to find an
answer.

It's really the absurdity of the problem that is getting to me.  There's no
reason for it to be generating the file to begin with.