How to fix Vista taskbar window preview that won’t go away when cursor moved |
Explorer.exe in Windows Vista starts to go wonky on my system after awhile and when you hover over opened items in the task bar they don’t go away when the cursor moves as it should. This has an ugly box in the middle of work. The only fix that I’ve found for this issue is to end the process and restart using Task Manager (thanks howtogeek)
STEP 1. Load task manager, find explorer.exe, right click and choose “end process”
STEP 2. go to File->New Task (Run…) and type in
explorer
This will restart the explorer.exe and the window previews will disappear properly when you move the cursor away. Is anybody aware of a better fix than killing and restarting explorer.exe?
BTW, simply unchecking and rechecking the “Show window preview (thumbnails)” didn’t work (pictured below).
Since I find these window previews more useless than useful, I set the taskbar to autohide and unchecked window I restarted for the nth time this morning. Would rather have back that 5% of screen space unless hovering over.
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Wow, what an annoyance. I’m running Vista Business SP1 and have never had such an issue. I’m curious about this bug/ fix.
Comment by Lestat — December 31, 2008 @ 9:10 am PST
Yeah, the same is on my Vista Business (32bit, all pathes and SPs).
Has anybody found a solution?
Comment by tomo — January 7, 2009 @ 1:22 am PST
Great! Worked for me.
Btw, I’m on Vista Premium.
Thanks for this.
Comment by Lisa — January 25, 2009 @ 7:30 am PST
It happens to me on Vista Ultimate all the time, but turning off the option in the taskbar properties got rid of them completely for me. Good riddance!
Comment by Richard — January 28, 2009 @ 3:44 am PST
I too have found the previews to be unhelpful. I know what windows I have open. Thankfully they are turn-offable.
Comment by alsdfj — February 9, 2009 @ 4:05 am PST