When you hover over the taskbar a small image of that programs windows opens up. If you hover over one of the images the desktop switches view and sometimes minimizes (kind of) all other windows.
That may be useful and attractive to some, but I’d like to turn it off. Unfortunately, I don’t know what cutesy name has been given the feature (peek?), so am having trouble finding the right help topic. Is there a way to stop that?
Awesome, thanks.
Er, new topic: Why can’t Rhythmdvl get that to work?
Both enabling and disabling the item in gpedit.msc didn’t change anything. Watiasecond, the window says “Windows Vista Only” in the “Supported On” box.
Are you running Aero?
Taskbar Thumbnails is part of Aero.
(Addendum to my last post: I tried restarting after configuring and am still seeing thumbnails)
I believe I’m running Aero–it’s supposed to turn on automatically based on configuration. This was a new build that is way over the top power-wise, so it’s on automatically. I think I can disable Aero, but that’s a bit like chucking the baby with the washup.
Sourceforge has been developing a classic menu shell. It provides a classic start menu, taskbar etc.
Reading the history.txt it does support Aero Glass (a cool feature). They have made the superbar more like the xp taskbar. I’m upgrading a pc to win7 next week. I’m going to give the classic shell a try. It’s free. I’m hoping they managed to kill thumbnail preview.
Hmm. Weird. Here’s a workaround that involves making the preview hover delay an incredibly long time (like 20 seconds) so that you’ll basically never see it.
Wow, I couldn’t imagine not having that feature now. I usually have like 20 windows open at work at any one time, and most are different excel or word files or c# programs. The thumbnails are insufficient to tell them apart. This allows me to scan the actual window, wherever (or under whatever) it might be hiding.
The setting is under:
Control Panel
System
Advanced System Settings
Advanced tab
Performance Settings button
Show thumbnails instead of icons
I saw the workaround, but it doesn’t work for me. My main issue with the previews is that they tend to pop up when I move the mouse out of the way of my main screen. Right now, if they pop up I can nudge the mouse out of the way (one of the things that I don’t like about them is that a whole section of desktop is off limits to an idle mouse). The delay means I will have taken my hand off the mouse before they pop up–meaning a different stop in productivity to move it.
I thought I’d like it when I first installed Win 7, but since all windows have the name of the instance in them, I can easily tell them apart. And even though I too have about twenty or so windows open at a time, I generally know which is which within their group.
Very frustrating to have a bell or whistle impressed on me. It was removable in Vista, but not here? Should I blame the marketing department or could there be a technical reason?
Does this change what the OP’s talking about or thumbnails for files in an Explorer window?
Can you rephrase this? I’m lost.
My task bar is on the right side of the screen (widescreen disply; cats who sleep on my desk). Moving the mouse away from the work area to the right top right brings up the popups. When it happens, I’m still usually moving the mouse and can move it off the buttons and get rid of the popups. The delay solution won’t work for me because it will pop up the previews after I’ve let go of the mouse and am back on the keyboard or elsewhere.
Just make the delay something absurdly long. I think the max you can use would be “FFFFFFFF” in hexadecimal, which translates to 4294967295 milliseconds, or more than a month before you move the cursor… if you’re on the computer that long, thumbnail previews would be the least of your worries.