System Enable or Disable Show Snap Groups on Alt+Tab, Task View, and Taskbar in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable show snap groups on taskbar thumbnails, Alt+Tab, and Task View for your account in Windows 11.

The Snap windows feature in Windows allows you to automatically resize and arrange windows on your screen.

Windows 11 includes a new snap layouts feature that allows you to select how to snap the current window.

Just hover your mouse over a window’s maximize button to see available snap layouts, then click on a zone to snap the window. You’ll then be guided to snap windows to the rest of the zones within the layout with guided snap assist. For smaller screens, you’ll be offered a set of 4 snap layouts. You can also invoke the snap layouts flyout with the Win + Z keyboard shortcut.

Snap groups provide greater ease in switching back to snapped windows. To use this feature, snap together at least 2 windows on your screen.

Starting with Windows 11 build 22523, Microsoft is showing snap groups in Alt+Tab and Task View just like when you hover over open apps on the taskbar, and see them on the taskbar thumbnail previews.




EXAMPLE: Snap Groups on Alt+Tab, Task View, and Taskbar












1 Open Settings (Win+I).

2 Click/tap on System on the left side, and click/tap on Multitasking on the right side. (see screenshot below)



3 Click/tap on Snap windows on the right side to expand it open. (see screenshot below step 4)

4 Check (enable - default) or Uncheck (disable) Show my snapped windows when I hover over taskbar apps, in Task View, and when I press Alt+Tab for what you want on the right side.

The Show my snapped windows when I hover over taskbar apps, in Task View, and when I press Alt+Tab setting will be disabled and grayed out if Snap windows is not turned on.

5 You can now close Settings if you like.

This option will not work when Administrator protection is turned on.

1 Do step 2 (enable) or step 3 (disable) below for what you would like to do.

This is the default setting.

A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.



(Contents of REG file for reference)


A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.



(Contents of REG file for reference)

4 Save the .reg file to your desktop.

5 Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.

6 When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.

7 Either restart the explorer process, sign out and sign in or restart the computer to apply.

8 You can now delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.





1 Open Registry Editor (regedit.exe).

2 Navigate to the key location below in the left pane of Registry Editor. (see screenshot below step 3)

Substitute <SID> in the key path above with the actual SID for the account you want to apply this to.

For example:
HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-2498639629-3946114050-4100787084-1001\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced

3 In the right pane of the Advanced key, double click/tap on the EnableTaskGroups DWORD to modify it. (see screenshot below)


4 Enter 0 (disable) or 1 (enable - default) for what you want, and click/tap on OK. (see screenshot below)


5 Either restart the explorer process, sign out and sign in or restart the computer to apply.

6 You can now close Registry Editor if you like.


That's it,
Shawn Brink