Taskbar List or Thumbnail Previews Mode - Change

Brink said:

In that case, double check to see if you may have disabled taskbar thumbnail previews using option 1 or 3 in the tutorial. Either could cause this.

Taskbar Thumbnail Previews - Enable or Disable

Ha. That's a different tutorial than the one I was using that had me changing the registry. This tutorial got the job done by suggesting that I change to an Aero format instead of the high contrast one I was using.

I actually like the aero theme better and would likely have changed to it at some point and then the thumbnails would have come back and I probably would not have made the connection and been mystified as to why they came back out of nowhere.

Thank you. This is very helpful to me.

Paul

We need a big THANK YOU button for stuff like this.
I found this tutorial when I moused over the Explorer folder icon on my taskbar; and, instead of all of my open folders displaying as thumbnails lined up across the top of my taskbar, I got a fly-up list.
Until I researched the situation, I had no idea what had happened; but, I did find that I preferred the list arrangement for those times when I had more than a few folders open.
Following your instructions, I set mine to display a maximum of three as thumbnails and any more than that as a list.
Thanks for this tutorial !

Can this registry value be set for the local machine, not just current user?

Using win 10 in this case. (On win 7 I have Aero disabled to begin with.)

Thanks.

--peter

Thanks! I already implemented it based on the win 7 tutorial, and it worked perfectly. Recommended by the 7+TaskbarTweaker guy. Since I set it to zero, the defaults don't matter to me. I prefer to do away with all the eye candy that MS thinks will make me happy. It doesn't.