Unable to turn off Taskbar Thumbnail

[jason83]

"Turn off taskbar thumbnails" is enabled but it still shows previews. Any ideas?

 

[Brink]

Hello Jason, and welcome to Seven Forums.

Double check with this tutorial to see if it may help. You will need to log off and log on, or restart the computer to apply the changes.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1517-taskbar-thumbnail-previews-enable-disable.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[jason83]

Sigh, I ran the reg file, but not from the desktop. I ran it from the desktop and it worked. lol

Thanks

 

[Brink]

LOL, gotta love those little quirks. I'm happy to hear that you got it sorted out.

 

[jason83]

I spoke too soon. It came back after I restarted... My G5 mouse is also messed up after upgrading to a newer version of Windows 7. ugh

 

[Brink]

Try the Group Policy setting to see if that will work better for you.

If you did a upgrade install on top of your older Windows 7 version, then
somtimes it's best to do a clean install instead to avoid potential issues with remnants of the previous OS messing with the new version.

 

[jason83]

Try the Group Policy setting to see if that will work better for you.

If you did a upgrade install on top of your older Windows 7 version, then
somtimes it's best to do a clean install instead to avoid potential issues with remnants of the previous OS messing with the new version.

That's probably what is going on. I wanted to avoid doing a clean install. I guess I may have to.

 

[Brink]

Well, try the Group Policy first to see if thay may work, then uninstall and reinstall the mouse drivers to see if it may help with that issue. Hopefully you will not need to reinstall yet.

 

[jason83]

Well, try the Group Policy first to see if thay may work, then uninstall and reinstall the mouse drivers to see if it may help with that issue. Hopefully you will not need to reinstall yet.

Yeah, I already tried both of those before posting here.

 

[Brink]

Well, that stinks. Looks like a reinstall or a repair install.

 

[Moffasin]

I'm using a fresh install of windows 7 build 7077 and neither of those methods work for me.

 

[Brink]

Hello Moffasin, and welcome to Seven Forums.

It appears that the option to disable the taskbar preview thumbnails is no longer available in Windows 7 in these later builds. I'll keep looking to see if I can find a way to do so other than the normal methods that were listed here.

Shawn

 

[Moffasin]

K, it worked for like 1 minute then it went back. I have no idea what happened or why, but the thumbnails are back now .

 

[Brink]

Well, since this is part of the Aero feature, a workaround is to use a Basic or Classic theme instead of a Aero theme. You would then not have thumbnail previews for the taskbar.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/280-theme-change-save.html

Hope this helps.

 

[Moffasin]

Already knew about that, a shame it doesnt work with Aero enabled :/

 

[Brink]

I'm not sure why Microsoft has removed this option either. Hopefully it will return in the next build.

 

[Moffasin]

Ok I found out why it was gone before, if the thumbnails are wider than my resolution is it becomes text instead of images. :/

 

[Brink]

Moffasin,

I'm not certain I understand what you mean by if the thumbnails are wider than your resolution. Could you explain what you meant more?

Thank you,
Shawn

 

[Moffasin]

Sorry if I wasnt being clear, I mean if there are enough pictures that the combined width of them is wider than my screen is, it becomes text instead of images.

 

[copernicus]

I'm not on a 7 box right now, but if you go to apperance and performance section(not sure where that is) there's a whole list of items you can check/uncheck. One of them there allows you to turn off the thumbnails.

(I'm pretty sure I saw it on my 7077 build at home, recently)