Preview Display In Taskbar

[Geek Wannabee]

I had some trouble with projecting my monitor to my TV, which I've sorted thanks to John Galt. Since fiddling with my drivers I have a different issue. Nothing is wrong but when I mouse over to the task bar, to the browser icon, I don't get the small screen previews like I did when I first installed Windows 7. They just stack up with written info like with XP.

Any thoughts?

 

[Brink]

Hello Geek Wannabee,

How many tabs do you have open in Internet Explorer at the time? If you have a lot open, then you run out of room for the thumbnail previews and it places them in a jump list instead until you close more tabs and they can fit again. Do your other items on the taskbar have preview thumbnails for them when they are open?

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[Dwarf]

To give you an indication, on my system I can have 11 IE tabs open and they display as thumbnails. Having 12 or more open, they no longer display as thumbnails, but as a jump list. This is perfectly normal, but the actual number where the display changes from thumbnails to jump list will vary according to the size of your screen and the resolution you are using.

 

[mxosder16]

could also be a simple thing like not having an aero theme

 

[ronalde]

On the taskbar-properties check for " Taskbar Buttons: Always combine, hide labels".
I think you'll get further from there...

Greetz Ronald

 

[Geek Wannabee]

I don't get the preview browser windows even with only one or two windows open. I checked the combine always hide tab and nada. Thanks for the input!

 

[ronalde]

I don't get the preview browser windows even with only one or two windows open. I checked the combine always hide tab and nada. Thanks for the input!

"Nada" as in "the function is enabled"?
You got the Windows Aero Theme? Is Themes even enabled in Services.msc?

Greetz Ronald E

 

[pat247]

I agree with redsoxm16, it is an aero thing. Happened to me once when I changed to classic windows desktop.

 

[Geek Wannabee]

Nada as in no change. I did 'restart' themes in services.msc as suggested and still my browser preview is the same as before with no mini window of the open browser windows. It's gotta be something simple. Thanks for taking the time.

 

[Geek Wannabee]

I downloaded the latest updates and things are back to normal...thanks again!

 

[Brink]

Geek Wannabee, I'm happy to hear that you got it sorted out.

 

[Geek Wannabee]

For anyone else having the same problem, I restarted my themes in the services.msc and I downloaded my updates and things returned to normal.

Also, the problem was caused by my fiddling with the drivers when I was trying to project my monitor to my TV, which can be down by pressing the windows button and tapping P...before, under XP and my toshiba drivers, it was Fn + F5.