Table of Contents.IntroductionA feature of Windows 7 is that it will show you a preview, or small thumbnail image, of the open windows for a particular program when you hover over it. For example, if you have 3 Internet Explorer windows open and hover your mouse cursor over the Internet Explorer icon on your taskbar, it will pop-up 3 small images of each of your Internet Explorer windows and allow you to select the one you want to make active. An example of this feature can be seen in the image below.Example of the Windows 7 Taskbar Thumbnail PreviewThough, in theory this feature is a good one, for many other people it is really annoying and can actually get in the way of productivity when these thumbnails pop-up over work you are trying to do.Unfortunately, Microsoft decided to not provide a method that can be used to disable this feature in Windows 7. Thankfully, ways have been figured out how to, if not totally disable it, at least make it so it is not annoying anymore. The first way is to set a particular Windows Registry entry so that the thumbnail previews will not pop-up instantly, but instead pop-up after a certain amount of seconds of hovering, essentially disabling this feature. The second method is to use a program called to disable it for us.

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Windows 7 Images Not Showing Thumbnails

At the time of this writing, the site for 7 Taskbar Tweaker is down so we will provide both methods in this tutorial.How to to disable Taskbar Thumbnail Preview in Windows 7 using the RegistryWarning: Improperly modifying the Windows Registry can cause Windows to not operate correctly. Therefore if you do not feel comfortable editing the Windows Registry then you can to perform these steps for you.