Why did MS remove "show windows previews (thumbnails)" ?


  1. JordanJP
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    Why did MS remove "show windows previews (thumbnails)" ?


    See the pic in Vista it was so easy to just turn them off. How do I do that in Windows 7 ?

    Why would MS do that ? To this day I keep wondering why MS would remove that option ? What's the point ?
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  3. Brink
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    Hello Jordan,

    You can use one of the options in the tutorial below to disable taskbar thumbnail previews.

    Taskbar Thumbnail Previews - Enable or Disable

    Hope this helps,
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  4. JordanJP
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    Brink said:
    Hello Jordan,

    You can use one of the options in the tutorial below to disable taskbar thumbnail previews.

    Taskbar Thumbnail Previews - Enable or Disable

    Hope this helps,
    Shawn
    Thanks Shawn but I'm still not sure why MS chose to remove that option ? What was their reason ? It doesn't seem to make sense to me.
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  6. Brink
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    You're welcome. I'm not sure why MS didn't include that option in Windows 7 as well.
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