Guys
The plugin really slowed down my computer - I would advise to stay away from it as well.

This other method is worth checking out - I will try it.

But the simplest process/idea would be - and this does not work for me at least yet - when you do a render and go to save it to your image folder, it would be nice if the maya file/scene name your currently working on would just populate the file/save name option.

Sounds like I'm lazy but as you all know any little speed enhancement let's you work that much faster.

Just a thought - I will for now just name my render images the same name as my scene file manually.

Thanks All
Dan

ps - I just used DaveRave method, works but I don't get the full image in the thumbnail, I get a small image of the center of the image - tried rendering smaller size but same thing happens - using maya 2011.