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
    2009-11-29T06:27:55+00:00

    HI ROSS

    turning off taskbar thumbnails will not disable the  thumbnail previews , i tried it long before

    if you had done it please let me know in detail.

    thanks

    Nikhil

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  2. Anonymous
    2009-11-29T12:57:51+00:00

    Nikhil,

    The steps I listed ARE the details.

    It has worked on every single machine I have done it on so far.

    Do you have Aero turned off? That could explain why it doesn't work for you.

    Now, this method WILL still show tooltips (instead of thumbnails)

    If you want to disable tooltips (it does require registry change):

    1. Go to Start>Run, type regedit
    2. Scroll down to HKEY_CURRENT_USER > Software > Microsoft > Windows > CurrentVersion > Explorer > Advanced
    3. You will see an entry named ShowInfoTip. Click modify and set its dword value to 00000000
    4. Exit and reboot.

    VP Tech Services

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  3. Anonymous
    2009-11-29T13:57:21+00:00

    Hi

    ROSS

    Thanks for your suggestions i don't want to disable Tool tips or thumbnail preview,its very handy to me

    just wanted to see it works or not.

    My Aero feature is enabled, i tried just now , its not working in my PC, note book and my friend system also,

    When i open explorer , i hover mouse on task bar still it shows the preview,

    amazing,

    so i am giving suggestions to this in delaying previews.

    anyway thanks again for your suggestion, hope it helps in near future.

    Nikhil

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