Turn off taskbar "popups" (not thumbnails)

[Oddish]

I'm not talking about thumbnail previews since I've got Aero turned off. I'm talking about the annoying little box that pops up when I hover over an application in the taskbar. It's just a litte box with the icon and title of the window and since I don't group applications on my taskbar, it's unnecessary and annoying. Any ideas on how to turn these off?

 

[Oddish]

Anyone? Does anyone know what the feature is called so maybe I can google it?

 

[zigzag3143]

I'm not talking about thumbnail previews since I've got Aero turned off. I'm talking about the annoying little box that pops up when I hover over an application in the taskbar. It's just a litte box with the icon and title of the window and since I don't group applications on my taskbar, it's unnecessary and annoying. Any ideas on how to turn these off?

Do you mean like this?

Ken

 

[Jacee]

See if this works for what you're trying to do:

go to the tools menu, select Internet Options, and then select the Settings button in the Tabs section of the first tab, uncheck the option that says “Show previews for individual tabs in the taskbar” and restart IE.

 

[johngalt]

This behavior is system wide, not just IE specific, IIRC.

 

[johngalt]

Yup - just checked by switching to basic, and it shows in for Control Panel, Firefox, AveStyler, xplorer^2....every thing that I have opened.

 

[Oddish]

Thanks for the responses. This is what I'm talking about (see attached file).

 

[johnhoh]

I'd like to eliminate these popups as well but have been researching to no avail so far

 

[BFG]

Change the following key

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\
ExtendedUIHoverTime to a really big time like 65536 and the pop-up will be gone

 

[johnhoh]

Change the following key

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer\Advanced\
ExtendedUIHoverTime to a really big time like 65536 and the pop-up will be gone

Thanks. I like the idea but I do not have that path or dword in my registry. I'm on win7 ultimate, 7600.16385

 

[Kukag]

Ya same I''m not finding any HKCU folder??

any suggestions?

Thanks
Kukag

 

[BFG]

HKCU is a common abbreviation for HKEY_CURRENT_USER

Try just pasting ExtendedUIHoverTime into the finder (F3) it should bring you right to it

 

[Oddish]

There's no "Explorer" under HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\. I searched the whole registry and couldn't find "ExtendedUIHoverTime" anywhere. I'm running Windows 7 RTM.

 

[johnhoh]

There's no "Explorer" under HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\. I searched the whole registry and couldn't find "ExtendedUIHoverTime" anywhere. I'm running Windows 7 RTM.

same for me, using win7 ultimate

 

[RA5C]

I'm not talking about thumbnail previews since I've got Aero turned off. I'm talking about the annoying little box that pops up when I hover over an application in the taskbar. It's just a litte box with the icon and title of the window and since I don't group applications on my taskbar, it's unnecessary and annoying. Any ideas on how to turn these off?

Do you mean like this?

Ken

I'll settle for removing this type of preview.

 

[zigzag3143]

ra5c

you will get more response if you start your own thread. I just happened to be looking for something in this thread and noticed your post.

Just trying to help


ken

 

[BFG]

There's no "Explorer" under HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\. I searched the whole registry and couldn't find "ExtendedUIHoverTime" anywhere. I'm running Windows 7 RTM.

My bad it's HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\

as my screenshot shows

but if you searched you should've found it, odd

 

[RA5C]

Anyone? Does anyone know what the feature is called so maybe I can google it?

I believe it's called, "pop-up tool tips", or someting to that effect.

 

[johnhoh]

There's no "Explorer" under HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\. I searched the whole registry and couldn't find "ExtendedUIHoverTime" anywhere. I'm running Windows 7 RTM.

My bad it's HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\

as my screenshot shows

but if you searched you should've found it, odd

ExtendedUIHoverTime was not in my registry until I added it as noted above by creating a DWORD for it (see screenshot). Unfortunately it seems to have no effect on my system and the pop-ups are still there.

 

[Oddish]

Has anyone made any progress with this? Is it time to contact Microsoft for a solution?