How Can I Disable Taskbar Thumbnail Preview?

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  1. Posts : 6
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 Edition
       #11

    Antman said:
    Windows Classic theme, small icons. Thumbnail preview and stacking is gone.
    And then Aero is gone too! I want Aero, I just don't want the thumbnails.
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  2. Posts : 4,573
       #12

    MkFly said:
    And then Aero is gone too! I want Aero, I just don't want the thumbnails.
    Take a holiday in North Korea and yell out something like, "The Dear Leader's mom wears army boots! God Bless America!"

    No thumbnails.
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  3. Posts : 6
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 Edition
       #13

    Yes, very helpful.

    Anybody else?
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    Windows® 8 Pro (64-bit)
       #14

    Antman said:
    Take a holiday in North Korea and yell out something like, "The Dear Leader's mom wears army boots! God Bless America!"

    No thumbnails.
    LOL that should be placed in tutorial section. .

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  5. Posts : 4,573
       #15

    Start Menu

    Search Bar gpedit.msc and press enter

    In left side of Group Policy Editor
    Navigate to User Configuration
    Administrative Templates
    Start Menu and Taskbar


    Locate “Turn off Taskbar Thumbnails” in right pan of Group policy editor and double click on it.

    Select Disable click apply and Press ok

    Now check your Taskbar, it shouldn’t show Thumbnails Preview .

    Some users report that this will not work.
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  6. Posts : 6
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 Edition
       #16

    It does not work. The setting even lists "Windows Vista only" next to it. It worked pre-RC, but not anymore.

    The other option given in another thread is to set ExtendedUIHoverTime to a value high enough that they take a long time to appear during mouse-over, but that doesn't work in all cases, as I already noted.
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  7. Posts : 4,573
       #17

    MkFly said:
    It does not work. The setting even lists "Windows Vista only" next to it. It worked pre-RC, but not anymore...
    Things that make you go, Hmmm...

    Which brings us back to - Classic Theme or North Korea.
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  8. Posts : 9
    Windows 7 x64 6.1.7600 Build 7600
    Thread Starter
       #18

    Antman said:
    Windows Classic theme, small icons. Thumbnail preview and stacking is gone.
    @antman: umm no. that's not the point, also just tried that just to see and even then it doesnt work lol.

    ...next!
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  9. Posts : 6
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 Edition
       #19

    The worst part is that I don't even use the "grouping" feature. I have my taskbar set to "never group" with small icons. As such, there's never more than 1 preview window to select for each taskbar item, which makes it useless.

    I can see how it would be useful if you used grouping, but I don't like the grouping at all.

    In Explorer.exe, I did find:
    TaskbandExtendedUI

    ... which also appears in aero.msstyles. I'm not sure where to go with that, though.
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  10. Posts : 4,282
    Windows 7 Ultimate Vista Ultimate x64
       #20

    I find it useful when you have another program open like a torrent behind say your browser, because you can just hover over the preview and will allow you to see what's going on in the other program without actually having to click on it and then you can just move your mouse back to your browser and carry on.
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