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
    2011-03-20T14:57:55+00:00

    HI Gokul,

    I am running Windows 7 professional and none of this methods work. Am I stuck with this annoying feature?

    Peter

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  2. Anonymous
    2010-11-21T18:28:48+00:00

    Just a tip for all those who dont want to play with their registry directly.

    Windows Tweak has a checkbox to turn on thumbnails on the taskbar. a simple google will find the software

    If at first you dont succeed, try again then quit. Theres no use being a damn fool about it

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  3. Anonymous
    2010-11-20T19:53:49+00:00

    I just changed to both of those themes and restart and reopened aol - the annoying pops are still there!!! - microsoft are you listening - we users dont need to know where our mouse's pointers are and whats behind them - we already know thats why were pointing there - and when your looking at a picture on the screen - you dont need another picture of useless text popping up to block your vision - we want to get where we are trying to click without eyestrain and headaches and we want to be able to see what were looking at instead of bombarded by useless popups.

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  4. Anonymous
    2010-11-20T19:46:10+00:00

    YEAH - I've tried these also and they don't work. Let me know if you have a lawyer - ha ha - we could go in together - i just dont have one - its giving me headaches and microsoft doesn't make it possible to get help from them.

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