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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 |
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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/ |
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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. |
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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. |
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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). |
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| 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? |
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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. |
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| 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. |
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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 |
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| 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. |
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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. |
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