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

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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

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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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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Anonymous

2012-12-26T19:08:53+00:00

I've had the same experience as Nikhil. Ross's suggestion did not work (Win7 Pro) whether or not Aeropeek was enabled.
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Anonymous

2012-11-19T06:05:56+00:00

This got to be the real fix for this nasty feature. Thanks!
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Anonymous

2012-10-01T14:01:01+00:00

Thank you!!! This worked.
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