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
    2017-03-23T22:26:24+00:00

    Hi it is 2017 now and I found this method does not work for Win 10.

    Can someone show up and solve this>

    I hate the preview and list.

    **** the MS.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-08-25T12:48:03+00:00

    Here we are in 2016,   and I have a user that has Vision Impairment and really can't deal with the thumbnail-previews on Windows 7. After reading almost all suggestion on this forum.  I can assure that  changing the register, change the local group policy and change the settings on the tool bar menu  WILL NOT turn off this feature. It seems that it needs to be a change on the group policy on the server end.  HOWEVER a quick fix (as other members suggested) is to change the windows to Classic View.

    http://helpdeskgeek.com/windows-7/is-there-a-classic-view-in-windows-7/

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-06-10T07:10:56+00:00

    Do you know how to make this work on windows 10? It seems to ignore the ExtendedUIHoverTime setting.

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