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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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

2011-04-12T22:15:04+00:00

Taskbar Thumbnails (not called popups) are actually a very important and handy feature for many of us.

I double-dog dare you to give me just one example of when these POP-UPs are anything but irritating and counter-productive to the home user. Even when we attempt to use them as (I guess) they were intended, we have to fight our way through "Pin this to taskbar" and "Close window" POP-UP messages just to get to the preview pic. I've never used Alt+Tab so much in my life!

If they are so damn handy then why have you had to disable them on so many machines? (re: "It has worked on every single machine I have done it on so far.")

Unbelievable!

Also, just to emphasize, the HOME VERSION DOES NOT INCLUDE GPEDIT.MSC. Thanks for pointing that out.
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Anonymous

2011-04-12T22:23:32+00:00

Hi

There really is a simple fix for this problem.

Just select either the Windows Basic or Windows Classic theme.

You don't think that's like hitting a nail with a Mack truck? Do you know how much Windows 7 costs, to suggest that we not enjoy transparent windows (etc) just because we hate pop-ups??
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