Disabling Taskbar Thumbnails no longer works on 24H2


tbubah said:
Hi, I'm on 11 Pro, V 24H2 build 26100.4061. Admins pushed an update this week, everything in my Taskbar is showing Thumbnails now and I CANNOT get them to go back to text-only Previews.

My HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Taskband\NumThumbnails is still at 0...

I tried going into Group Policy and enabling "Turn off taskbar thumbnails".

Also tried creating a DWORD for ExtendedUIHoverTime in
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced and setting to Decimal 60000 as suggested here.

In my work I constantly have a lot of open emails, Excel spreadsheets, Word docs, File Explorer windows... It is SO annoying to have to move the mouse horizontally to access or close huge Thumbnails, as opposed to vertically-scrolling nice succinct text-only Preview lines.

WHY would Microsoft need to force all users to view Thumbnails of their open programs??!?!?!!?

Please tell me a fix is coming (outside of having to install 3rd party program).
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I have the exact same situation, including the same build number.

And just to note, the hexadecimal / decimal thing in Regedit is just how the UI works. It doesn't matter which one you use so long as you supply the right value -- "60000" in decimal is equivalent to "ea60" in hex.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 11 23H2 (OS Build 22631.3296)
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    Manufacturer/Model
    Maingear Vybe
    CPU
    AMD Ryzen 5 3600X
    Motherboard
    Gigabyte X570 Gaming X
    Memory
    HyperX Predator RGB DDR4 3200MHz (32 GB total)
    Graphics Card(s)
    NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super
    Sound Card
    RealTek ALC887 (Onboard)
    Hard Drives
    Seagate FireCuda 520 SSD/NVMe (1 TB)
    PSU
    EVGA 750W SuperNOVA B2 80+ BRONZE
    Cooling
    Maingear Epic 240
    Keyboard
    SteelSeries Apex 3 TKL
    Mouse
    Razer Viper 8KHz
    Internet Speed
    1 Gbps
    Browser
    Brave
    Antivirus
    Microsoft Defender
    Other Info
    No third-party security software
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