How to enable selected window highlight in Taskbar popup?


  1. Orthoducks
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    Windows 7 Professional x64
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    How to enable selected window highlight in Taskbar popup?


    If the same application is open in several windows, and one of the windows is selected, I can float the mouse pointer over the application's Task Bar button to pop up a list of the application's windows.

    One of the Windows 7 computers I use has an additional useful feature. If one of the application's windows is selected, the corresponding entry in the popup list is highlighted (there's a box around it).

    Does anyone know what UI control enables this feature? I'd like to use it on all of my Windows 7 machines, but I don't know how to turn it on.
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  3. ethel
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    Windows 10 Pro 64 bit
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    Hi Orthodocks, The below tutorial by Brink may be what you are looking for



    Taskbar Thumbnail Live Previews - Enable or Disable in Windows 7 ..
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  4. Orthoducks
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    Thank you for the suggestion, but I don't think that's it.

    I'm not asking about a peek at a window that I point to, but a highlight on the the window that is selected, i.e. on top. Also, this has nothing to do with Aero, which I don't use.
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