Windows 10: Windows 10 Taskbar Thumbnails to better list View (Productivity setting)

If you work with many documents, you may notice that after you open 20 or so documents, the taskbar Thumbnails view changes to a List view.

The List view is a lot more consistent, and more functional because the Title text is clearly visible and expands so you know which Window to select or close.

The thumbnail view doesn't have any function other than to look "Aesthetic" while degrading the functionality.

There are 2 ways to change this behavior.

1) Winaero tweaker > search for Taskbar thumbnails (I use this because its easier to find all settings in one gui)

2) Registry Editor HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Taskband

Modify the value : NumThumbnails to 1 or 2 (however many Thumbnails you would like to see before it changes to List view)

Other things can be changed here as well like Thumbnails size, margin and spacing.

Hopefully this will help anyone who has been annoyed by this setting.

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Taskbar Thumbnails

Hello Joe, *Smile

It looks like you may have set your taskbar thumbnails threshold too low by mistake.

Check to see what you have for the NumThumbnails DWORD value, and adjust as/if needed.

*Arrow Change Taskbar Thumbnail Threshold to Show List in Windows 10 | Tutorials

 

Change Delay Time to Show Taskbar Thumbnails in Windows 10


Hello Eddo,

This setting affects the delay time to show both thumbnails and list.

It doesn't affect which one shows though. For that, see: Change Taskbar Thumbnail Threshold to Show List in Windows 10 Windows 10 Tutorials

 

Change Taskbar Thumbnail Threshold to Show List in Windows 10


Thank you! It works before but when I create and log in by a new account. It does not showlist anymore