Unwanted Pop-Up

I have a Win 7/ IE 11 laptop annoyance, that I would like to resolve.
(Appologizing in advance for NOT knowing the technically correct IE
page descriptors).

My issue occurs when my mouse is near the bottom row, where all open
windows are displayed. If the cursor gets "to close" to that row, an
UNWANTED popup occurs - showing all open windows.

My desktop, also with IE 11 does not exhibit that unwanted display.
How do I stop it, on my laptop.

Most appreciative for any advise -joe

joe wrote:

I have a Win 7/ IE 11 laptop annoyance, that I would like to resolve.

My issue occurs when my mouse is near the bottom row, where all open
windows are displayed.

Windows taskbar perhaps?

If the cursor gets "to close" to that row, an
UNWANTED popup occurs - showing all open windows.

"Too close" to trigger the thumbnail preview means your mouse is
actually within the screen space for the Windows taskbar.

This is a feature of the taskbar - to show all windows for the grouped
program for a taskbar icon. Say you have 5 instances of IE open or you
have 5 tabs open in IE. When you hover the mouse over the grouped IE
taskbar button, a popup shows a mini-preview of each window or tab you
have opened in all instances of IE. A group can be just 1 instance of
the program, so hovering over the taskbar button might show just 1
thumbnail preview or a whole bunch of them if the taskbar button
represents a whole bunch of instances of the same program.

My desktop, also with IE 11 does not exhibit that unwanted display.
How do I stop it, on my laptop.

See:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tuto...-in-windows-7/

In article , says...

joe wrote:

I have a Win 7/ IE 11 laptop annoyance, that I would like to resolve.

My issue occurs when my mouse is near the bottom row, where all open
windows are displayed.

Windows taskbar perhaps?

If the cursor gets "to close" to that row, an
UNWANTED popup occurs - showing all open windows.

"Too close" to trigger the thumbnail preview means your mouse is
actually within the screen space for the Windows taskbar.

This is a feature of the taskbar - to show all windows for the grouped
program for a taskbar icon. Say you have 5 instances of IE open or you
have 5 tabs open in IE. When you hover the mouse over the grouped IE
taskbar button, a popup shows a mini-preview of each window or tab you
have opened in all instances of IE. A group can be just 1 instance of
the program, so hovering over the taskbar button might show just 1
thumbnail preview or a whole bunch of them if the taskbar button
represents a whole bunch of instances of the same program.

My desktop, also with IE 11 does not exhibit that unwanted display.
How do I stop it, on my laptop.

See:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tuto...-in-windows-7/

Turn of the "Aero" features I believe also turns off the Preview feature
if that indeed is what he's complaining about.

It sounds like you're seeing taskbar grouped icons
being displayed when you hover over them.

See this page:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/w...on-the-taskbar

The default in Win7 is to group together similar taskbar
icons. It's supposed to save space, but it really just ends
up hiding useful information, unless you're so sloppy that
you usually have 20-odd windows open. The link above
explains how to change the behavior back to the original
design, with each open program window having one icon
on the taskbar. You'll then get no popups because nothing
will be hidden in the first place.

pjp wrote:

In article , says...

joe wrote:

I have a Win 7/ IE 11 laptop annoyance, that I would like to resolve.

My issue occurs when my mouse is near the bottom row, where all open
windows are displayed.

Windows taskbar perhaps?

If the cursor gets "to close" to that row, an
UNWANTED popup occurs - showing all open windows.

"Too close" to trigger the thumbnail preview means your mouse is
actually within the screen space for the Windows taskbar.

This is a feature of the taskbar - to show all windows for the grouped
program for a taskbar icon. Say you have 5 instances of IE open or you
have 5 tabs open in IE. When you hover the mouse over the grouped IE
taskbar button, a popup shows a mini-preview of each window or tab you
have opened in all instances of IE. A group can be just 1 instance of
the program, so hovering over the taskbar button might show just 1
thumbnail preview or a whole bunch of them if the taskbar button
represents a whole bunch of instances of the same program.

My desktop, also with IE 11 does not exhibit that unwanted display.
How do I stop it, on my laptop.

See:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tuto...-in-windows-7/

Turn of the "Aero" features I believe also turns off the Preview feature
if that indeed is what he's complaining about.

One Aero theme feature is the popup thumbnails to show window previews
when you hover the mouse over a taskbar button for an app. If you
switch to a non-Aero theme then you lose the taskbar button thumbnail
preview but you lose all other Aero features.

Control Panel - System and Security - System - Advanced system
settings, Advanced tab, Performance section, Settings
(whew, and Microsoft thought this was easier)

That has some Aero features you can enable/disable. I mentioned this
tweak dialog because the OP might want disable other features, Aero or
not, to make the desktop and app windows more snappy. According to:

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials...e-disable.html

disabling the "Animations in taskbar and Start menu" also eliminate the
thumbnails preview in the taskbar; however, I've had that fluff feature
disabled for a long time (typically soon after installing Windows 7) and
I still have the taskbar button thumbnail preview feature. This
article:

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials...e-disable.html

also mentions the same methods of effectively disabling the taskbar
preview feature as the prior article that I gave; however, the Win7
forum tutorial also mentions using a non-Aero theme will eliminate those
previews. Well, yeah, but that assume you want a non-Aero theme. Maybe
that's what you meant by "Turn of[f] the Aero features".

Another Aero feature regarding the Windows taskbar is the Aero Peek
feature. That puts a bar or handle on the right-side of the taskbar (if
it is positioned at the bottom of the screen). When you hover the mouse
pointer over that bar, all windows go invisible with the topmost window
showing only an outline. If you click on that bar, all window get
minimized, the same as when you enter Win+D. That can be disabled using
the above mentioned system performance dialog or right-clicking on the
taskbar and changing its properties.

Mayayana wrote:

It sounds like you're seeing taskbar grouped icons
being displayed when you hover over them.

See this page:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/w...on-the-taskbar

The default in Win7 is to group together similar taskbar
icons. It's supposed to save space, but it really just ends
up hiding useful information, unless you're so sloppy that
you usually have 20-odd windows open. The link above
explains how to change the behavior back to the original
design, with each open program window having one icon
on the taskbar. You'll then get no popups because nothing
will be hidden in the first place.

I could never see the point of the half-way option of configuring how
many app windows appear before combining them or combining them when
room runs out in the taskbar for them. You'll have the behavior of
separate app buttons in the taskbar and suddenly many disappear and you
only have 1 button for all windows for the same app. Pow, where the
hell did all the app buttons go? Then, pow, a whole bunch suddenly show
up for the same app. Seems like picking one behavior (always combine)
or another (never combine) would provide consistent behavior.

Note that the taskbar app button thumbnail preview feature does not
require grouped app buttons. A single (non-grouped) app button in the
taskbar will still have the thumbnail preview feature. When you hover
over a non-grouped app button, you get the thumbnail preview for just
that one because it's the only one. When the app button represents a
group of windows for the same app, the popup shows previews for each
instance within that group.

That article talks about grouping same-app windows together under one
taskbar button and when to group or never group. It does not discuss
how to enable/disable the popup previews for a taskbar button - which
will still appear no matter what group setting you use for the taskbar
buttons. That OP wanted to know how to eliminate the "popups" (which
looks to be the taskbar's preview feature), not on how to group the
taskbar's buttons representing running apps (that have windows).

| That article talks about grouping same-app windows together under one
| taskbar button and when to group or never group.

The OP said the popup is showing "all open windows".
That sounds to me like he's seeing the grouped windows
list on hover.

| It does not discuss
| how to enable/disable the popup previews for a taskbar button - which
| will still appear no matter what group setting you use for the taskbar
| buttons.

Previews? I'm using Classic mode with separate
icons. I don't see any popup preview on hover.
If I switch to Aero I still don't see any popup
preview. I also can't find any setting in Display
that might give me popup preview. You mean
a miniature screenshot of how the window will
appear when non-minimized? What a daffy idea.
Is it possible that I just have a blessed version
of Win7, or are we talking about different things?

Mayayana wrote:

| That article talks about grouping same-app windows together under one
| taskbar button and when to group or never group.

The OP said the popup is showing "all open windows".
That sounds to me like he's seeing the grouped windows
list on hover.

| It does not discuss
| how to enable/disable the popup previews for a taskbar button - which
| will still appear no matter what group setting you use for the taskbar
| buttons.

Previews? I'm using Classic mode with separate
icons. I don't see any popup preview on hover.

Previously mentioned: If you switch to a non-Aero theme then you lose
the taskbar button thumbnail preview but you lose all other Aero
features.

If I switch to Aero I still don't see any popup preview.

Something is broken or the registry edit already exists that was
mentioned in the 2 referenced articles.

I also can't find any setting in Display
that might give me popup preview.

And why the articles mention editing the registry or using a tweaker
(that does the registry edits for you).

You mean a miniature screenshot of how the window will appear when
non-minimized? What a daffy idea.

Users often forget tweaks they made long ago. Sometimes I forget tweaks
that I made long ago and then realize why I don't experience what the
users is asking about.

Is it possible that I just have a blessed version of Win7, or are we
talking about different things?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWwJmc2tsVk
Shows enabling/disabling taskbar preview by changing themes. Thumbnail
preview is only in the Aero themes.

https://i-msdn.sec.s-msft.com/dynimg/IC420541.png
With most of the desktop clipped away, that shows what the thumbnail
preview looks like when hovering over a grouped taskbar button.

Look at the registry entries noted in the articles to see how you are
setup. The registry hack doesn't eliminate the thumbnail preview
feature of an Aero theme. It just makes the popup delay so long that
users are highly to wait around that long with hovering the mouse over a
taskbar button. Of course, if you're away and the cat plays with your
mouse, it's possible the mouse pointer on the screen got moved to get
positioned over a taskbar button and when you come back the thumbnail
preview is waiting for you to see.

| And why the articles mention editing the registry or using a tweaker
| (that does the registry edits for you).
|

I see. Thanks. I do have that Registry entry,
set to 60000, though I have no memory of it
existing or even of ever having seen those
popups.

Mayayana wrote:
| And why the articles mention editing the registry or using a tweaker
| (that does the registry edits for you).
|

I see. Thanks. I do have that Registry entry,
set to 60000, though I have no memory of it
existing or even of ever having seen those
popups.



I think this question came up one time before.
About mouse hovering on task bar and how to
stop the window thumbnails from popping up.
You use a larger number, like your 60000 value
for 60 seconds.

http://www.addictivetips.com/windows...ows-7-taskbar/

But there's no telling what else that setting
might effect. The naming doesn't seem too
specific to just the task bar.

Paul

| But there's no telling what else that setting
| might effect. The naming doesn't seem too
| specific to just the task bar.
|

Good point. ExtendedUIHoverTime seems to be
a general setting. Yet setting a high value doesn't
affect tool tips on the Desktop, fortunately.

Paul wrote:

Mayayana wrote:

Vanguard wrote:

And why the articles mention editing the registry or using a tweaker
(that does the registry edits for you).

I see. Thanks. I do have that Registry entry, set to 60000, though I
have no memory of it existing or even of ever having seen those
popups.

I think this question came up one time before. About mouse hovering on
task bar and how to stop the window thumbnails from popping up. You
use a larger number, like your 60000 value for 60 seconds.

http://www.addictivetips.com/windows...ows-7-taskbar/

That article says to modify:

Key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Mouse
Data: MouseHoverTime

That is a per-user setting, not a global one. However, as you next
note, it seems the wrong place to change the mouse hover time. That
appears to be a mouse setting, not an object setting.

But there's no telling what else that setting might effect. The naming
doesn't seem too specific to just the task bar.

Key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\Advanced
Data: ExtendedUIHoverTime

is where the articles that I mentioned previously tell you to change
(severely lengthen) the popup delay time. Since the desktop object is
an explorer.exe process (i.e., Windows Explorer is also the desktop
manager), I would suspect the Explorer\Advanced key is where the taskbar
thumbnail popup delay is defined. However, since this setting looks to
be associate with Explorer, perhaps other objects it displays would be
affected by this setting, like how long before the popup help balloon
appears when hovering over the buttons in Windows Explorer's toolbar.