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<p>If you find taskbar thumbnails annoying, there&#8217;s an easy way on how to get rid of this feature.</p>
<p>Have in mind that there are a lot of suggestions on the net on how to achieve this, but none of that work, at least not on mine Windows 7 x64 Ultimate system.</p>
<p>This suggestions include editing local security policy, editing registry and using keys like &#8216;TaskbarNoThumbnail&#8217; (that is created if local security policy is edited), DisablePreviewWindow and so on.</p>
<p>None of this works. Below solution won&#8217;t disable the taskbar thumbnails, but rather will extend the delay of it.</p>
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<p>To disable the taskbar thumbnails in Windows 7 please do the following: <!--more--></p>
<p>Hit<strong> Win ORB | Type REGEDIT | Navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced</strong></p>
<p>In the right pane right click on on the white area and create a New DWORD (32-bit) Value (if you&#8217;re using Windows 64-bit, if not mind the (32-bit).</p>
<p>Type <strong>ExtendedUIHoverTime</strong> and click OK | Double click on the <strong>ExtendedUIHoverTime</strong> key and in the Value data box type <strong>20000</strong> | click OK (This will extend the thumbnail hover time to 20 seconds).</p>
<p>Close the registry editor and restart your machine for changes to take effect.</p>
<p>Notice that there&#8217;s no thumbnail appearing when you hover over the taskbar items.</p>
<p>If you would like to revert changes we made now, just change the Value of the <strong>ExtendedUIHoverTime</strong> key in the registry to 0. OR just delete the <strong>ExtendedUIHoverTime key</strong>.</p>