Turn off taskbar thumbnail previews in Windows 10 Pro?

MikeEcho · 05 Dec 2019

Sorry, newbie question....I just migrated to Windows 10 from Windows 7 and I don't like the behavior of Windows 10 where when you hover over a taskbar app at the bottom of the screen, it gives you a thumbnail preview of any open windows in the apps.

I prefer the previous behavior of Windows 7, where you got a *text list* of the open windows for each app, but not a thumbnail for each app.

I found a supposed fix online at: Turn Off Taskbar Thumbnail Previews in Windows 7/8/10 .

The fix was called "Turn Off Taskbar Thumbnail Previews in Windows 7/8/10"

I followed the instructions to disable taskbar previews in group policy, and I found the correct setting to toggle, but even after rebooting the machine, it didn't seem to work.

Any ideas?

Using Windows 10 Pro.

Thanks.

Brink · 05 Dec 2019

Hello Mike, and welcome to Ten Forums.

To disable taskbar thumbnail previews in Windows 10, you would need to set the ExtendedUIHoverTime DWORD time to a high value (ex: 10000) like in the tutorial below.

Change Delay Time to Show Taskbar Thumbnails in Windows 10

dalchina · 06 Dec 2019

I followed the instructions to disable taskbar previews in group policy, and I found the correct setting to toggle,

I seem to recall from a very similar thread recently that if you inspect that policy it says it applies to Vista.

(You can ask why these legacy remnants exist....)

bro67 · 06 Dec 2019

Jump lists can be used, I personally find having the small windowed popup of the sub screens for an app a lot more helpful in trying to determine which one is freezing things or is done doing something.