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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  2. Anonymous
    2013-05-25T17:22:00+00:00

    See Nikhil's post above (this is the only thing that worked for me on Win7 Pro - I set it to 5 seconds so I can still get the preview to appear if I want to):

    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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  3. Anonymous
    2013-05-25T17:10:26+00:00

    how do I disable the taskbar preview window pop-ups?

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