Task Bar Icons question

Windows 8. I am annoyed by the task bar icons expanding in my face
any time I happen to bring the mouse pointer over these icons. Is
there any way to change this or eliminate it entirely?
Thanks, Gordon

Gordon wrote:
Windows 8. I am annoyed by the task bar icons expanding in my face
any time I happen to bring the mouse pointer over these icons. Is
there any way to change this or eliminate it entirely?
Thanks, Gordon

OK, try this.

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

You want to do the exact opposite of what they're doing.

1) Open Regedit.
2) Navigate to

HKEY_CURRENT_USER : Control Panel : Mouse
MouseHoverTime = 400

3) Change the value to 40000 (likely to be milliseconds).

Save and exit. Will require a reboot (or at least
a logout I would guess).

What used to happen, is if you hovered on a Firefox icon (with three
windows present), they would pop up three thumbnails side by side just
above the icon.

With the change, to get the thumbnails to pop up now, you'll need
to click the icon. Or, wait patiently for the 40 second value you just
loaded, for the hover function to fire off. Maybe the value is
allowed to be 2 billion or 4 billion, so if you suspect that
40 seconds still isn't long enough, higher values likely work.

At least if you "fly your mouse" over that area now,
it won't behave quite as badly.

Paul

On Wed, 11 Sep 2013 16:09:54 -0400, Paul wrote:

Gordon wrote:
Windows 8. I am annoyed by the task bar icons expanding in my face
any time I happen to bring the mouse pointer over these icons. Is
there any way to change this or eliminate it entirely?
Thanks, Gordon

OK, try this.

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

You want to do the exact opposite of what they're doing.

1) Open Regedit.
2) Navigate to

HKEY_CURRENT_USER : Control Panel : Mouse
MouseHoverTime = 400

3) Change the value to 40000 (likely to be milliseconds).

Save and exit. Will require a reboot (or at least
a logout I would guess).

What used to happen, is if you hovered on a Firefox icon (with three
windows present), they would pop up three thumbnails side by side just
above the icon.

With the change, to get the thumbnails to pop up now, you'll need
to click the icon. Or, wait patiently for the 40 second value you just
loaded, for the hover function to fire off. Maybe the value is
allowed to be 2 billion or 4 billion, so if you suspect that
40 seconds still isn't long enough, higher values likely work.

At least if you "fly your mouse" over that area now,
it won't behave quite as badly.

Paul

Thanks, Paul. I did this and it seems to have worked very well. It
gives me about 10 seconds, not the 40 that I was expecting, but that
works well. If I need more time I'll do another change. I had to
re-boot twice but that probably was caused by some other automatic
update downloads that just happened to come down the pike at this
time. Gordon