How to Enable or Disable Taskbar Thumbnail Live Previews in Windows 10


When you hover over the taskbar icon of an opened item (ex: Google Chrome), it will show you a thumbnail preview of its opened windows or tabs.

If you hover over the thumbnail preview of this item, it will instantly show you a live preview (peek) of only that item on your desktop. If you like, you can change the thumbnail live preview hover delay time to how many milliseconds you want instead of showing the live preview instantly.

This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable showing taskbar thumbnail live previews for your account in Windows 10.

EXAMPLE: Taskbar thumbnail live preview



Here's How:

1 Do step 2 (on) or step 3 (off) below for what you would like to do.

2 To Enable Taskbar Thumbnail Live Previews

This is the default setting.

This will also enable Peek.

A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the BAT file below, and go to step 4 below.

Enable_taskbar_thumbnail_live_previews.bat

Download

Contents of .bat file for reference:

Code:

@echo off

:: Enable taskbar live thumbnail previews
REG ADD "HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced" /V DisablePreviewWindow /T REG_DWORD /D 0 /F

:: Enable Peek
REG ADD "HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\DWM" /V EnableAeroPeek /T REG_DWORD /D 1 /F

taskkill /f /im explorer.exe
start explorer.exe

3 To Disable Taskbar Thumbnail Live Previews

A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the BAT file below, and go to step 4 below.

Disable_taskbar_thumbnail_live_previews.bat

Download

Contents of .bat file for reference:

Code:

@echo off

REG ADD "HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced" /V DisablePreviewWindow /T REG_DWORD /D 1 /F

taskkill /f /im explorer.exe
start explorer.exe

4 Save the .bat file to your desktop.

5 Unblock the .bat file, and run it.

6 You will now notice your screen flicker as a command prompt quickly opens and closes to apply the registry changes and restart explorer.

7 You can now delete the downloaded .bat file if you like.


That's it,
Shawn

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