How do you disable the taskbar preview window pop-ups?

Anonymous
2009-11-08T06:11:28+00:00

how do you completely disable the preview window that pops up when your mouse pointer hovers over an item on the taskbar?

the only thing i've been able to do is turn off the desktop composition option, which turns the preview windows into lists.

i don't want *anything* popping up.  all it does is get in the way!  thanks in advance

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Anonymous
2009-11-08T13:25:16+00:00

Hi telum01

You can set the hover time to a long value

Open Regedit by the use of RUN command or start menu search go to

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced

 there right click on right pane  Create a new DWORD called ExtendedUIHoverTime and set the value to 20000 (that's 20 seconds) or value of your wish..

for that much of seconds it will not pop up..

so by hopefully turned off.

Hope it helps

NIKHIL

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Anonymous
2009-11-09T06:32:22+00:00

Hi Tangency

yes,

the value is in Milli seconds, and has to be a Decimal value. hex character not accepted.

Dword has designed accordingly 32 bit and 64 bit for respective versions.

thanks for understanding

NIKHIL

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  1. Anonymous
    2012-03-27T03:59:06+00:00

    I'm frustrated with this 'feature' too, like all you guys here, until I find this tool: 7 Taskbar Tweaker.

    I'm not posting the URL because the official site is out of maintainace for some reason, so google this keyword and find the download link for yourself.

    Regards.

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  2. Anonymous
    2012-02-20T03:05:50+00:00

    are you saying that if you turn aero off, gpedit can't be used to disable the previews?

    i've tried the fix with and without aero enabled [without having edited the registry at the point], to no avail.

    if tooltips are disabled, are they diabled in the systray at the same time?

    i require;

    no popup taskbar images

    no taskbar tooltips

    BUT yes to systray tooltips

    postscript: the regedit has worked.  many thanks nikhil

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-02-20T02:20:26+00:00

    "many of us"....????

    :DDDDDD

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