Make Taskbar Thumbnail Previews appear faster
Change Taskbar Thumbnail Hover Speed
Open regedit and navigate to the following registry key: In the right pane, right-click on MouseHoverTime. Select Modify. The default value is 400 ms. Set the new value at, say, 100. Click OK. Exit regedit. Reboot. You will see that when you hover, the taskbar previews now appear much faster. Incidentally, MouseHoverTime indicates the amount of time, in milliseconds, that a mouse pointer must remain within an area the size of the MouseHoverSize property in order to generate a mouse hover message. Whereas, MouseHoverSize indicates the size of the rectangle within which the mouse pointer has to stay for the mouse hover time before a mouse hover message is generated. You can see that all these, including height & width, can be changed here. Do note that MouseHoverTime will customize the hover time globally, as it will adjust the mouse hover delay for everything, including tooltips, taskbar icons, start menu, etc. I prefer to have previews, tooltips, etc faster, hence have suggested this tip. If you, however, wish to only customize the Taskbar Preview Thumbnail Hover Delay, then, INSTEAD, simply add a new DWORD named “ExtendedUIHoverTime” and give it value 100. This post will help you if Taskbar Thumbnail Preview is not working. Related posts:
Enable or Disable Thumbnail Previews in Windows File ExplorerHow to increase Taskbar Thumbnail Preview size in Windows.
UPDATE: Our Taskbar Thumbnail Tweaker may interest you.
