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

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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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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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Anonymous

2013-04-03T15:58:15+00:00

Method 1: works very well for me!!! thanks a lot!
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Anonymous

2013-12-21T19:47:05+00:00

"Just try to get used to the previews. They're actually pretty easy to ignore once you get used to the system, and they are actually helpful"

It's hard to get used to not being able to see what I am doing because of these idiotic boxes that tell me something I already know about something completely unrelated to what I am trying to do.

Yes, they are actually helpful if you don't want to be able to see what you are doing and don't want to get anything done.

Do you work for Microsoft? If not, your computer usage must be extremely limited.
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Anonymous

2013-12-21T22:32:51+00:00

Thank you Jean_957 !

Taskbar Tweaker is the answer:

**http://rammichael.com/7-taskbar-tweaker**And thank you to RamMicHael!

This is the fix I have been waiting for for the year I have been using Windows 7.

As for the other putative methods: As Jean_957 reported, Method 1 does not work on all versions of Windows 7, particular for the instance on my PC. And Method 2 does not really work at all. Taskbar Tweaker allowed me to make the desired setting and I did not even have to reboot for it to take effect.

I think I have finally defeated Bill Gates in the Windows 7 arena.
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Anonymous

2013-12-22T01:08:03+00:00

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One of the things that make Windows so powerful is that if you don't like a feature, someone, somewhere will have a fix for the issue.

Note: The following program is not supported by Microsoft. Any support must be provided by the software developer. Use at your own risk.

7 Taskbar Tweaker - RaMMicHaeL's home page:

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

Thank you for posting this. I implemented this fix earlier today following the recommendation from a later contributor and it works perfectly.
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