Windows 10: showing titles and icons, NOT images, for alt-tab and taskbar hovering

Discus and support showing titles and icons, NOT images, for alt-tab and taskbar hovering in Windows 10 Customization to solve the problem; I'm a new windows 10 latptop owner, previously used windows 7 with the classic theme. In both win 7 aero and in win 10, I dislike how the use of... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Customization' started by mike1127, Mar 8, 2016.

  1. MIKE1127
    mike1127 Win User

    showing titles and icons, NOT images, for alt-tab and taskbar hovering


    I'm a new windows 10 latptop owner, previously used windows 7 with the classic theme. In both win 7 aero and in win 10, I dislike how the use of alt-tab and hovering over taskbar icons shows a series of miniatures images of windows. This is a terrible user interface --- all my windows are dense with text and could be scrolled to any point, so they can't be identified from the image. What I need to see are window titles. Or in the case of alt-tab, icons. Win 10 does show the titles but not stacked vertically, making them difficult to scan by eye. Same with icons---they are tiny little things in a sea of useless image.

    So can I change the win 10 theme to show a vertical stack of window titles when hovering over the taskbar, and to show icons when doing alt-tab switching?

    Mike

    :)
     
    mike1127, Mar 8, 2016
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  2. VIDAR PETURSSON
    Vidar Petursson Win User

    "All settings" now showing up

    Hi,

    The icon appears on the taskbar, hovering over it will show the "mini" window, alt+tab will show the settings window but I can't access it.

    Windows 10 anniversary
     
    Vidar Petursson, Mar 8, 2016
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  3. DAIYUEWENG
    daiyueweng Win User
    Windows 10 taskbar app icon not showing preview (Taskbar Hover preview)

    Hi,I found that when I hovered my mouse pointer over the app icons on taskbar. Windows didn't show a preview (a small window above the app icon) of the apps like it used to. I am wondering how to fix this?

    thanks

    Original title: Windows 10 taskbar app icon not showing preview
     
    daiyueweng, Mar 8, 2016
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  4. VKARYL
    vkaryl Win User

    showing titles and icons, NOT images, for alt-tab and taskbar hovering

    Heh. I asked that ages back, never got an answer. I'll track this thread in case you get more action than I did!
     
    vkaryl, Mar 8, 2016
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  5. DALCHINA
    dalchina New Member
    dalchina, Mar 13, 2016
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  6. VKARYL
    vkaryl Win User
    I did search months back, but apparently wasn't using the correct keywords. I'm personally not fond of registry editing for something that should be a customization option in settings, but thanks for finding it.

    Tried that just now, and it's not working set at 0, still getting the image for the first window. However, getting the list for more than one window is still a huge improvement. I quite frequently have several notepad2 windows open at a time, several Computer windows open, etc. and having little images pop for tooltips whenever the mouse skates over them was so annoying....
     
    vkaryl, Mar 13, 2016
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  7. DALCHINA
    dalchina New Member
    dalchina, Apr 5, 2018
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