Disable previw of window content

[christianmerges]

I have my taskbar at the left sie and when I hover over the entries in the taskbar, it shows a popup which contains a screenshot of the application. I want to disable this, because it is overlaying content in the applications.

[pyrates999]

Open up the System control panel and go to the tab advanced tab. Under Performance, click on settings button. On tab named Visual Effects, disable Enable Peek. Click OK button.

[christianmerges]

This is already disabled, but it only affects the Windows 11 taskbar. It looks like this application is using the windows 10 dlls. I guess this has to be disabled in the registry.

I tried this as well:

IF(!(Get-ItemProperty -Path HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM -Name EnableAeroPeek -ErrorAction 0)){
New-ItemProperty -Path HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM -Name EnableAeroPeek -PropertyType DWORD -Value 0
}
Set-ItemProperty -Path HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM -Name EnableAeroPeek -Value 0

[pyrates999]

I would file an issue then that shows the following:

• taskbar set to windows 10 (explorerpatcher)
• enable peek is disabled with how you disabled it
• include any other information that the template for filing an issue requires
• and just so you know, don't say "latest" when putting in the version number of windows 11 and EP, and build number of windows 11

[chris-ayers-uk]

Bug raised - Thanks

[mzharikov]

In my case Windows 10 (Explorerpatcher) taskbar is affected by all ancient window preview and taskbar text bubble bugs. It's not as terrible as vanilla windows taskbar, but still annoying. So I'm joining to the request to force disable both windows preview and especially text bubbles in Explorerpatcher code.

[pyrates999]

try the windhawk mod mentioned here: #3018