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Discus and support Why is the window preview that opens as a tooltip when you hover over a program in the... in Windows 10 Gaming to solve the problem; So as the title says, the window preview that opens as a tooltip when you hover over a program in the Windows Taskbar doesn't update in real time when... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Gaming' started by Nikos Lazaridis, Apr 18, 2023.

  1. Why is the window preview that opens as a tooltip when you hover over a program in the...


    So as the title says, the window preview that opens as a tooltip when you hover over a program in the Windows Taskbar doesn't update in real time when the program is DirectX based eg a video game application.This is my observation and I'm just wondering why that happens and if there's a way to make the window preview tooltip update in real time just like any other program with a window.Thanks.

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    Nikos Lazaridis, Apr 18, 2023
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  2. Opening programs on a twin monitor setup

    Hi,

    To further assist you, we suggest for you to follow these steps:

    • Hover to the open application on the taskbar.
    • You'll get a miniature Preview screen of the said application.
    • Hover your mouse over the Preview screen.
    • Right click on Restore.
    • Re-hover over the same Preview screen.
    • Right click on Move.
    • Use the arrow keys to move the application on your desired screen/position.

    Let us know how it goes.
     
    PreciousLeb, Apr 18, 2023
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  3. Tooltips in taskbar list

    I have the Windows setting to Always Combine buttons; when I click on a taskbar button it displays a list with the titles of the open windows (I have the registry setting Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Taskband\NumThumnails DWORD (32 bit) (REG_DWORD) with value 0)

    so that makes it a list rather than the preview, which is what I want, now the problem is when the list is displayed and I hover with the mouse over an item (or if I do Win+number, repeatedly to cycle through the items), there is this tooltip that shows up, in case the title is on the bigger side and doesn't fit on width, that shows the entire text of the title over several lines. I hate this thing because it obscures the other items in the list.

    Would there be any way to turn these tooltips off?

    Note I'm not asking to turn off the tooltips that show when you hover over the taskbar button - but when you hover over an item in the list.

    Alternatively, is there any way to make the list wider so that longer items fit in it, and that way, the tooltips won't show anymore (I noticed they don't show when I hover over a list item that short - shorter than the overall list width)?

    Thanks a bunch!
     
    dfigpsjodhfgijs, Apr 18, 2023
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  4. Vwake123 Win User

    Why is the window preview that opens as a tooltip when you hover over a program in the...

    No Task Bar (hovering) preview, no peeking, no full screen is on hovering over and clicking

    When there is no window opened, hovering over taskbar app icons, a preview is shown, but on hovering over preview no full window is opened, and no peeking is done, and also clicking on that small preview, no window opened.

    1. And whenever there is a window is opened then hovering over taskbar icons doesn't gives any preview of the window.
    2. But it still opens window, on just clicking on task bar icons ( i.e. working fine ).

    And when two windows of any app is being opened and if minimized any of them then you can not maximise that minimized window...???

    • And when both windows of same app is being minimized then hovering over task bar icon of that app still shows those two previews, but clicking on any preview doesn't provide anything, and thus it all means after minimizing those two window of that app you
      can not recover any of the window.
    Basically the problem is I'm not able to open window ( or make full ) from any task bar preview and the First (1.) one also of first paragraph.
     
    Vwake123, Apr 18, 2023
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