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I am incredibly frustrated. I need to disable toolbar pop up lists. I have already disabled Aero (also annoying) and Tooltips (less annoying, but it also gets in the way of necessary buttons), but the damn pop up list is screwing up my work. When writing reports, I may have 10 or 15 files open within one or two programs. I do not link different pages in a single taskbar icon (another annoying feature), but have them spread across the taskbar.
EVERY TIME my mouse goes near the taskbar, a pop up list of ALL open files fills my screen. I already have them lined up along the bottom, I don't need that list flooding my screen. What is the proper name of this annoying feature and how do I disable it?
I currently use Windows 7
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I've been having the same problem. I think I've found the answer.
I looks like it might be a bug of some kind. I went to taskbar and start menu properties, task bar tab, and under appearance I set it to 'allways combine' and hit apply. Then I changed it back to never combine and clicked apply again. They have stoped popping up now. Only time will tell if that will last.
No, not thumbnails. I got rid of them already. I also got rid of tooltips. I am speaking of the list of files - within a given program - that pop up when your mouse passes over or hovers too near the tool bar. It lists the names of all the files in a vertical column. I have 10 word files and spreadsheets open right now. That list covers 2/3 of the screen if I go near the taskbar. I know what I have open and I know the order they occur along the task bar.
Since I do not bundle all the files into a single icon on the tool bar, its completely redundant to have that list pop up every time I go near a button on the task bar.
Thanks for trying, but no. Not thumbnails and not tooltips.
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right click on the toolbar, select properties
navigate to "Taskbar buttons:" and choose "never combine" from the drop-down list
Does this resolve the issue?
if not, please provide a screenshot to explain further (you can use "Problem Steps Recorder" to do this)
Thanks, Aero's already off. The problem persists.
There is no 'taskbar buttons' option when I right click on the taskbar. The problem isn't that the all files within a given program are grouped in one icon. The problem is the vertical stack of file names that appear above any of the many buttons displayed along my task bar.
I'm sorry, I don't know how to do a screenshot (nor do I have time right now to learn something I've never needed). But let me try and recreate it with text
File 1
file 2
file 3
file 4
file 5
file 6
file 7
W W W W W W W IE IE IE IE IE IE IE
When the mouse goes too close to one of the icons, I get a vertical popup list with all the files open for that program, even though they are all independently displayed along the bar. Point origin for this annoying feature is whatever icon the mouse got too close to or hovered over.
Is this helpful in explaining my problem?
Thank you for your effort.
