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
    2011-12-02T19:39:52+00:00

    I was just asked this very question by a co-worker (our company of 100K + employees has spent the last year rolling Win 7 out to the work force).  Its shocking to hear that what is obviously a user preference would be hidden in group policy editor or necessitate modifying the registry.  In a corporate environment not everyone has access to those tools.

    And just one of many reasons why I have migrated my and my kids' PCs to Ubuntu at home (I wish I could talk the wife out of Mac).

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  2. Anonymous
    2011-11-27T20:32:50+00:00

    Hi Guys,

    My Taskbar Preview suddenly changed to a Taskbar List... How can I enable back the Taskbar Thumbnails...?

    I'm using WIN 7 Ultimate Edition.

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  3. Anonymous
    2011-11-23T07:46:06+00:00

    I completely agree with Chuckeenz. I'm using Windows 7 professional since 5 months and still cannot get used with useless fancy new stuff.[...]

    Danilo Renzi

    WORD!! There's a reason apple is successful. And it sure isn't that their products work better, they're just simpler. The only reason I'm using Windows again is that there's a gazillion geeks around that are working to fix stuff and then post their fixes in forums, which is less so the case with Macs.

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