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

On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:39:48 +0000, Chuckeenz wrote:

> Speaking of Windows XP, I never appreciated just

how great that OS was until I used Windows 7. Windows 7 is a big step

backwards in many respects.

I completely disagree, but it's your choice entirely. If you prefer

Windows XP, install and run Windows XP.

> I know I worked faster and happier with Windows XP.

For almost everyone, it's true that when you go from something you

know well to something that's new and different (whether the

differences make it better or worse) it takes time to learn and

appreciate the changes. Again, it's your choice what to run, but I

urge you to give yourself sufficient  time to get accustomed to the

changes and learn why Windows 7 is better, not worse, than all

preceding versions of Windows. And if you do what I suggest, work very

hard to do it without the preconceived notion that either one is

better than other; if you start out with a prejudice, it's very likely

that you will convince yourself that your prejudice was correct.

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Ken Blake

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Ken Blake (MS MVP)

Mr. Ken Blake, your post is useless. The only things you accomplished is, one, sound condescending towards people who you disagree with, and, two, fill up space. I just want to let you know this, so that you don't make the mistake of posting such stuff in the future...

You sound condescending by lecturing Chuckeenz on how he/she should simply take the time learn something new and by implying that he/she was prejudiced and couldn't handle transitioning to something new. By extension, you sound this way to all of us who feel similarly to Chuckeez (like myself).

Your post is also useless because your suggestion to continue running Windows XP is, in fact, useless. I agree with Chuckeez, but still, it is absurd for me to try to continue with WinXP. WinXP will soon be a decade old. It's not designed for new computers and hardware, will have less and less support from MS and other companies, and it's obviously inferior to Windows 7 in stability and overall functionality. I have no choice but to move on to Win7. (Thank god at least it's not Vista...)

What I (and presumably Chuckeez and others here) miss, is the feel and interface of using WinXP. I liked my experience using WinXP better than I am liking my experience with Win7. But, again, that doesn't mean that I'll switch back to WinXP and deal with headaches with no native SATA driver support, etc. etc.... So, since I and others are stuck with Win7, we are looking around for answers for how to make all of Win7's annoyances better to our liking. I, too, am looking for a way to turn off these taskbar "thumbnails". I actually thought it was a pretty cool feature at first, but after using Win7 for about a month now, I have gotten sick of it. It is annoying rather than helpful, after all.

Thanks.

I am desperate to turn this stupid "feature" off, because it is interfering in a very bad way with my user experience. I am on a laptop with a fairly short screen compared to what a lot of programs and websites seem to expect people to have these days, so I am often working with text or forms or whatever at the bottom of the windows, which are right next to the taskbar. And since I'm on a laptop, I'm using the touchpad instead of a mouse.

As a result, my cursor very often ends up hovering over the taskbar as I type or select different fields, or whatever it is I'm doing, since the touchpad is sensitive and gets tapped accidentally while typing, or the cursor simply moves too far. (I could change the sensitivity of the pad, but that is not the main problem here.) When the cursor hovers, the previews and task list pop-ups cover what I'm doing and make it more difficult and time-consuming to complete my work.

There MUST be a way to fix this and disable it. I seriously regret upgrading from Vista, because the window taskbar previews are such a huge negative impact on my user experience. I could barely afford the copy of Win7 I have (saved up for it a few months), and buying a new copy of Vista to re-install (it was the original installation on my laptop, but got wiped and I didn't have a working back-up) is not feasible.

The regedit method and the gpedit methods do not work fo rme - I have Home Premium. I have googled and seen 3rd party .exe software claiming to solve the problem, but I do not want to have to constantly run a questionable program just to get rid of something that Microsoft should have realized would be problematic.

I am agreed its scary to go into the registry to switch of a configuration

I would simply like to go back to the XP view of items in the taskbar where you have a list of window headings, so when you click on firefox icon in the taskabr you see a column of  webpage titles, word and excel the name of the file. This was a very concise and fast way to swap between windows.

I am not sure the registry changes that have been described provide this functionality. Can anyone confirm that the registry change will get me back to the XP view of the taskbar.

Thanks

Craig