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
    2011-03-14T22:17:50+00:00

    Please notice the difference between searching and running. The correct proceedure to access gpedit is to run it.. 

    Short for run is windows key + r

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  2. Anonymous
    2011-03-21T06:28:39+00:00

    Hi Nikhil! Hope you’re doing well.

    Thanks for your tip! Superb!

    Work great, but still having the following issue:

    -          I have Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bits.

    -           I have set up Taskbar buttons to “Combine when Taskbar is full”. Aero (Transparent glass on windows) is enabled.

    When I have many Internet Explorer Windows open, Taskbar group as a list. When I move mouse over this list, it still change the view to preview the window. I do not want that. I want to keep in the window I am unless I click over the window.

    Do you know how do I modify that?

    Thanks a lot!

    Nick.

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  3. Anonymous
    2011-04-10T11:46:19+00:00

    Hi Nick,

    sorry for delay!

    glad to here that it helped!!

    on your query that is the IE nature to preview when you hover mouse on that, but if you took it back it will show the windows that you currently working..

    you can try this..

    this is on IE9 go to internet options, see "change how webpages are displayed in tabs" under general tab, click on settings, untick "show previews for individual tabs in taskbar".

    hope this helps

    Nikhil

    blog:windowsworld

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