How to customize Preview Thumbnails on Taskbar Windows 10

On Windows 10, there is Preview Thumbnails feature on the Taskbar so that users can see through the open applications and software on the computer through thumbnails. We can preview the ongoing activities of the application without having to open directly like on other Windows versions.

However, with low-end computers, or small screen resolutions, using Preview Thumbnails on Taskbar is not appropriate. If so, you can adjust the time to display app thumbnails on Windows 10 Taskbar according to the article below.

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How to adjust thumbnails Taskbar Win 10 application

Thumbnails on the Windows 10 Taskbar when hovering over the application icon will look like the following.

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Step 1:

Press the Window + R key combination to open the Run window and enter the keyword regedit and click OK to access.

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Step 2:

In the Registry Editor interface, access the HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerAdvanced directory path .

Step 3:

Right-click Advanced and select New Dword (32 bit) Value .

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Then enter the new name for the value as ExtendedUIHoverTime .

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Step 4:

Right-click on the newly created value and choose Modify , or you can double-click the newly created value.

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A dialog box for changing the value data appears, users can enter 30000 in Value and then press OK to save. Finally, restart your computer for the changes to take effect.

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In fact, Windows 10 has no way to turn off Preview Thumbnails thumbnails on the Taskbar, but only adjust the display time. The value of 30000 means that after 30 seconds the new thumbnail is displayed when you hover the application icon on the Taskbar. The higher the value of this value, the longer the time.

In case you want to return to the default setting, displaying the application thumbnail as soon as you hover over the icon just changes the value of the ExtendedUIHoverTime to 0 or deletes it all.

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Although you cannot turn off Preview Thumbnails completely on the Taskbar, with the above adjustment you can increase the time to display the app thumbnail with an optional time. Returning to using Preview Thumbnails by default on Windows 10 is also very easy.

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I wish you all success!

Lesley Montoya

Update 26 May 2019

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