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Windows 7 taskbar groups to use vertical menus only, not thumbnails?

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Mar 15, 202629745 views
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I frequently have 10 or more windows of the same application (e.g. Outlook, Word, IE, etc.) open at one time. Windows 7's new taskbar grouping thumbnail feature shows a preview of open windows (aka thumbnails) when you single-click on the taskbar group for that application. But when I have over 10 …

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Fix for: Windows 7 taskbar groups to use vertical menus only, not thumbnails?

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There's a registry key you can edit to get this behaviour even in modern versions of Windows 7: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Taskband Create a DWORD called NumThumbnails, and set it to 0 to achieve list mode f…

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