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Disable Taskbar Popup on Mouse Hover – Windows 8 & Windows 7

2014/06/10 by Bay Area Tech Pros

Do the taskbar popups get in the way of functionality and usability? Quickly disable them with this easy fix:

Proper solution – requires professional or higher grade edition of Windows for access to the group policy editor:

  1. Go to Start > Run (Winkey+R) and type gpedit.msc, press enter
  2. On the left pane navigate to User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Start Menu and Taskbar
  3. Find “Turn off Taskbar Thumbnails” on the right pane, double click it, set enabled.
Group Policy Editor
Group Policy Editor

Not very good solution – works on all windows versions. Popup is delayed, shows eventually, taskbar windows retain an odd behavior.

  1. Go to Start > Run (Winkey+R) and type regedit, press enter
  2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ Advanced
  3. Create a new DWORD (32-bit) value named ExtendedUIHoverTime
  4. Double-click ExtendedUIHoverTime and select Decimal
  5. Enter a value in milliseconds (1 s = 1000 ms) that will “delay” the popup
  6. Restart computer
Category: UsabilityTag: Windows
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  1. Jack

    2019/04/19 at 5:43 AM

    Did the gpedit.
    Not immediate as some changes with gpedit have been.
    logoff logon did not change.
    Took a couple reboots on my win7 pro.
    Thank you for providing the basics of the possible solution.

    Found elsewhere, this did it.
    Create Dword in the registry……. ExtendedUIHoverTime

    HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\
    ExtendedUIHoverTime to a really big number like 65536 and the pop-up will be gone

    Reply
  2. Douggles

    2019/08/10 at 8:52 AM

    Just — thank you. Worked splendidly.

    Reply

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