Preview box when you hover toolbar icons disappeared?

[JohnnyScience]

Ok when you hover over the icons in the tool bar, they used to show a mini thumbnail preview picture of what that program was... but now it doesnt do it any more?

I dont think I changed anything?

How do I get this effect back?

 

[rsvr85]

Which toolbar?....Where? Can you make your question a little clearer please?

 

[JohnnyScience]

The main one at the bottom... where all the programs show up when you have them open & where you have your quick deploy icons

It used to have a thumbnail preview picture when you hovered the mouse, now that effect isnt there.

 

[rsvr85]

The Taskbar you mean
Right click the desktop & choose Personalise, make sure the Aero theme is enabled and transparency is also enabled.

 

[JohnnyScience]

Ok I see like 7 aero themes, I've clicked the first one, but it still didnt bring the preview windows back?

I dont actually see where you change transparency etc?

 

[rsvr85]

I dont actually see where you change transparency etc?

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You could also try and adjust some of the settings in the Advanced system settings (Right click 'Computer' and choose properties).
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[rsvr85]

Just one more suggestion for the moment, try merging this registry file.
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All it does it resets the mousehovertime value to default. (just eliminates 1 more thing )

 

[JohnnyScience]

I dont get that screen when I hit window color & appearance? I get an old school window like XP?

Also I dont have Enable Transparent Glass?

This is really odd that effect just went away

 

[JohnnyScience]

Wait you know what, I did install IntelliMouse Software by Microsoft for my wireless mouse

So I'm going to assume that changed it

Any ideas now?

 

[rsvr85]

If you don't have an Aero theme enabled, the taskbar previews won't show, if you don't see the same windows color and appearance box pop up, you don't have an Aero theme enabled.
Did you try the advanced system settings or the registry file?

 

[JohnnyScience]

ok I enabled the windows restarted and everything seems to be ok, I really dont know what I did other than restart.

I have been updating/downloading/adding tons of programs onto 7 over the last 8 hours.

 

[rsvr85]

Cool, so everything is back to normal?

 

[JohnnyScience]

Now its back to not doing it. I dont know. I'll try restarting again in a little bit.

This doesnt make any sense.

 

[Neale]

I've noticed the exact same problem today - fixed (apparently) by a reboot. The only system change I recall making today was installing a newer version of the '7 Sidebar' gadget (that makes the sidebar more like the Vista version).

It will be interesting to see if it stays fixed or not!

Cheers,
--
Neale
Insanity is hereditary, you get it from your children

 

[Neale]

Solved in my case - running flight simulator x puts the screen into 'Windows 7 Basic' so the previews are lost. I think the exit process hung, so I killed it with Task Manager - consequently the colour scheme never reverted to Aero.

 

[Stigmo]

Disabled "Thumbnail Preview" with Windows 7.

First post.
Hope it helps.

Problem In Windows 7, when you hover your mouse on taskbar icons, it will display small thumbnail preview of opened window on your taskbar, but if you are not comfortable with taskbar thumbnail previews feature, you can disable it. Solution
Open Local Group Policy Editor. To open Registry Editor, type in "gpedit.msc"in Start menu search box and hit enter to validate.

Navigate to "User Configuration->Administrative Templates->Start Menu and Taskbar" in the left pane of Local Group Policy Editor.

In the right pane, find and double click "Turn off Taskbar Thumbnails".

To disable taskbar thumbnails preview, check "Enable" and click "Apply". To enable taskbar thumbnails preview, check "Disable" and click "Apply".

Click OK button to finish setting and restart computer to check your taskbar for thumbnails preview.
Tips
Taskbar Thumbnail Preview only works when you have turned on Aero in Windows 7.