I have done everything I can to turn off Aero Peek. I'm referring to the thumbnail previews you see when you mouse over an open item on your bottom taskbar. For example, if I have Word open but am looking at my desktop, if I mouse over the "Microsoft Word" icon in the taskbar (quick launch taskbar) at the bottom of the screen, I see a small thumbnail image of the document I'm editing.
I hate that.
I just want to disable those little previews / thumbnails when my mouse moves into the lower taskbar and moves over one of the open programs.
I have disabled this in taskbar properties, but that isn't working.
I went into Regedit and set every item I could fine labeled "AeroPeek" to 0.
I'm still seeing those stupid thumbnails.
Any suggestions?
Hello klgrube, and welcome to windowssh blog.
Those would be taskbar thumbnail previews instead. The tutorial below should be the same in Windows 10 to disable them.
Taskbar Thumbnail Previews - Enable or Disable - Windows 7 Help blog
None of those worked. The taskbar Tweaker utility won't run on Windows 10 and I couldn't locate the registry entries mentioned. My themes don't show "aero" themes. or any setting for aero.
Any other suggestions?
You should be able to use step 2 in OPTION FOUR to effectively disable them. The registry entries are not there by default, but the downloadable .reg file will add it for you.
Try:None of those worked. The taskbar Tweaker utility won't run on Windows 10 and I couldn't locate the registry entries mentioned. My themes don't show "aero" themes. or any setting for aero.
Any other suggestions?
HKEY_CURRENT_USERControl PanelMouse
and set MouseHoverTimevalue to something so high it effectively disables it. (400 is the default) 400000 should do it!
Sign out - sign in and you should be good to go.
Open notepad and copy this into it...
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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerAdvanced]
"ExtendedUIHoverTime"=dword:000186a0
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Save the file as 'nomoretaskbarthumbs.reg'
Then execute the file.(Merge it in to your registry.)
Reboot your computer.
Open notepad and copy this into it...
____________________________________________________________________
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerAdvanced]
"ExtendedUIHoverTime"=dword:000186a0
____________________________________________________________________
Save the file as 'nomoretaskbarthumbs.reg'
Then execute the file.(Merge it in to your registry.)
Reboot your computer.
Yes, that combination finally worked! Thank you so much! I do hope Microsoft will make this change easier to implement.
That was OPTION FOUR in the tutorial I had already posted at the top.
That was OPTION FOUR in the tutorial I had already posted at the top.
That may be true, but with the Windows 10 Technical Previews updates, it took some time to get to it working. Also, I DID make these changes a couple of times between updates, and they just weren't working. I finally seem to have a stable build that isn't preventing these change from staying. But the main thing is that I'm not longer seeing those previews, and that makes things much nicer. Thanks again.
All that matters is that you got it sorted.
