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
    2011-03-11T19:15:22+00:00

    Hi

    There really is a simple fix for this problem.

    Just select either the Windows Basic or Windows Classic theme. No more thumbnails, and it will work similar to what you saw in XP, depending on the Taskbar options you have set.

    The only differnce is that in XP, a number would be displayed on the Taskbar icon showing the number of open windows, and if you wanted to see a menu of the open windows, you had to click the small arrow on the right side of the icon.

    Regards.

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  2. Anonymous
    2011-03-09T22:50:49+00:00

    This is the correct Answer

    Edit the registry

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

    Add DWORD DisablePreviewWindow Value = 1

    Restart and the idiotic toolbar thumbnail will be gone.

    Vijer,

    While I agree with your posts, this didn't work for me.  I'm running Windows 7 Pro with service pack 1.  Setting the hover time up to a minute "works" to the extent that the thumbnails don't appear unless you hover for a full minute, but the process and timer are still running taking up CPU cycles.  This should *definitely* be a checkbox available in the taskbar properties.

    An excellent example of the tunnel vision engineers get about their product is the statement, "Taskbar Thumbnails (not called popups) are actually a very important and handy feature for many of us."  All the users that have reached this thread would argue that Taskbar Thumbnails (not called popups) are a very annoying and irritating feature for the rest of us.

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  3. Anonymous
    2011-02-25T17:33:57+00:00

    This is the correct Answer

    Edit the registry

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

    Add DWORD DisablePreviewWindow Value = 1

    Restart and the idiotic toolbar thumbnail will be gone.

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