any way to make taskbar thumbnails appear faster?

[Slashee the Cow]

This may be a stupid question, but is there any way to make the taskbar thumbnails appear faster? There's a 1-2 second delay which I find very annoying when I want to open a specific window of a program (and while I know I can click, I also find that very annoying... I guess I'm picky).

 

[hethoofd]

Indeed, you can simply click it But I know how you feel, since I tend to wait as well. I guess there must be some registry key to change this.

 

[kranika]

i'm waiting for some tweak for this........

 

[hethoofd]

Let's send some feedback on this. Microsoft might tweak it themselves...

 

[Mark]

I found a way to make it open a little faster but if you do you will lose Aero Peak and Aero Snap, which is a nice feature but if your more interested in speed this is how.

1. Go to computer and Right Click and select Properties

2. Go to Advanced System settings

3. Go to the Advanced Tab and select Performance

4. Deselect the top two boxes for Animation as shown

 

[garysgold]

Hello Slashee the Cow,

Welcome to the Seven Forums.

It would help us answer questions for you if you filled out your system specs with as much detail as possible. You can click on 'My System Specs' in the lower left corner of one of your own posts and click on 'Update System Specs' to do so. Look at others to get an idea of what info is helpful.

Gary

 

[Airbot]

This may be a stupid question, but is there any way to make the taskbar thumbnails appear faster? There's a 1-2 second delay which I find very annoying when I want to open a specific window of a program (and while I know I can click, I also find that very annoying... I guess I'm picky).

Yeah, type regedit in your start menu. Open it up, go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER, then to Control Panel, then to where it says Mouse, then go to MouseHoverTime to the right, it will have a value of 400. double click on MouseHoverTime, drop the 400 to whatever you want, enter 200, 100 20, etc. Click ok, close Regedit, Restart the computer and it will pop up faster. I set mine to like 30.



Shawn, can you make a tutorial of this?

 

[hethoofd]

Yeah, type regedit in your start menu. Open it up, go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER, then to Control Panel, then to where it says Mouse, then go to MouseHoverTime to the right, it will have a value of 400. double click on MouseHoverTime, drop the 400 to whatever you want, enter 200, 100 20, etc. Click ok, close Regedit, Restart the computer and it will pop up faster. I set mine to like 30.



Shawn, can you make a tutorial of this?

Great find! I like 'em popping up fast

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello Aaron.

Why don't you do the tutorial....
















Later :shock: Ted

 

[Airbot]

Shawn's already done them just now.

 

[Brink]

Yeah, type regedit in your start menu. Open it up, go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER, then to Control Panel, then to where it says Mouse, then go to MouseHoverTime to the right, it will have a value of 400. double click on MouseHoverTime, drop the 400 to whatever you want, enter 200, 100 20, etc. Click ok, close Regedit, Restart the computer and it will pop up faster. I set mine to like 30.



Shawn, can you make a tutorial of this?

LOL, just finshed it.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1884-mouse-hover-time-change.html

It's almost the same type of settings as this one:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/731-menu-show-delay-time.html

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Shawn's already done them just now.

Yes, Shawn is a tutorial machine; thanks Shawn.












Later :shock: Ted

 

[Airbot]

I like the way Shawn makes the tutorials so I'll let him have this one..

 

[Brink]

Credit has been given of course.

See tutorial.

 

[Airbot]

Yes, thank you.

 

[Slashee the Cow]

Thanks for that, it works great.

 

[renthor]

Very nice thanks, was bothering me as well. Especially since the full preview would flash away because of the delay when hovering over multiple windows.