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
    2012-12-27T14:16:30+00:00

    Thanks for this solution! Works for me. The previews were getting annoying on my work laptop. There really should be an option in the "Properties" dialog to turn it off.

    I would like to add here that you need to either restart (or re-login) your machine for this to take effect. Alternately, you can open task manager, kill explorer.exe and then start it back by using New Task and typing in explorer.

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-01-23T06:43:34+00:00

    Oh yeah, that's MUCH easier!!

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-02-19T12:19:04+00:00

    I completely agree with you.. i really hate the pop ups and it is driving me mad because i have to browse on internet. do this, do that, download this, install that, click this, click that. what a waste of time. Customer should be given a reliable operating system which are easy to use and those system option kind of stuff should not be shown or experienced by Customers. I am sorry Microsoft, i am already shift to mac many months ago and really love it and today i am really frustrated after i have to use my windows laptop again.

    Microsoft should build another operating system FROM THE START instead just adding the complexity which makes it more prone to error and those slowness. otherwise i will stick with my Mac.

    but anyway. Microsoft is still a great company. many big company uses its software and i am sure it will be the same in the future. Thank you for the help.

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