How do you disable miniature pop-up windows when hovering over icons in taskbar?

Anonymous
2009-11-17T20:57:10+00:00

Attempting to disable "small windows" that pop up when you mouse over icons in taskbar. Annoying me. They could be disabled in vista, but can't figure out how in W7. afraid i'm stuck with them. when i personalise and chose windows basic screen, "windows" become picture of icon. better, but still not good.

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Anonymous
2013-11-03T07:27:06+00:00

Method 1: is not available in Windows 7 Home Premium , only in the Pro version. And I could not find any registry value that would match the gpedit.msc corresponding option.

Method 2: works on my system. Without "ExtendedUIHoverTime" registry entry:

With "ExtendedUIHoverTime" registry entry:

So it prevents (for the number of milliseconds specified) the pop up of the taskbar thumbnail, but does not remove the additional (!) pop up (text box black on white) I guess known as "taskbar icon name".

After hours of investigation on the Internet, the only efficient solution I could find is indeed this light program that also brings lots of additional functionalities. It works also on Windows 8.1, does not change anything to the regular registry (quoting FAQ -> "The only registry keys the tweaker modifies are it’s own settings. There are no registry keys for the options it provides. The tweaker does that by injecting a DLL to explorer, hooking/subclassing/some other methods of the dark side.")

http://rammichael.com/7-taskbar-tweaker

I now use it, no more registry manual manipulations ("ExtendedUIHoverTime" registry entry removed),  I love it.

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  1. Anonymous
    2010-05-11T10:26:00+00:00

    Method 1 doesn't work for me, and I don't want to try method 2, because I want to see text titles in place of the picture previews. I know it's possible, because my laptop has multiple power modes, and I see text when I mouse over the icons in power-saving mode. I just want to have that setting without changing modes!

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  2. Anonymous
    2010-04-27T13:02:06+00:00

    Hi pudyqat, are you running the released version of Windows 7?  Neither the disable or enable setting of Turn off Taskbar Thumbnails in the Group Policy Editor works to disable the Taskbar Live Preview Thumbnails on any of the Windows 7 systems I'm running.

    -Noel

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  3. Anonymous
    2010-04-27T06:05:22+00:00

    I selected "disable" instead of "enable"  (first section) and this worked for me.  Whatever works, I guess.

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  4. Anonymous
    2010-03-14T17:29:23+00:00

    Yes i fixed it last night, Thank you.

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