
If you’d prefer to change the settings manually without using a dedicated application, here’s a list of the registry changes you can make to accomplish this by hand. And since you can always revert to the default settings, you can experiment without fear of messing up your computer. This tool makes it safe and easy to change the size, spacing, and more of your taskbar thumbnail previews. Windows Explorer will restart again, and your taskbar thumbnails will be back to their default settings.

This could be useful if you have trouble selecting the correct preview, and we can imagine it would be a very useful modification on touch screens.Īnd, if you ever take your changes too far, and want to revert to your default Windows 7 taskbar thumbnail previews, simply run the Customizer again and select Restore Defaults. Here we increased the width between the thumbnails, while keeping the thumbnails at their default size. Notice also that Aero peek shows the tab you’re hovering over in Internet Explorer, but the tab name in IE’s toolbar doesn’t change to the one you’re previewing. It shows a larger preview of your active tab, and smaller previews of your other tabs. So next time when you open that program it will load faster. If you enable this feature then all the opened programs taskbar thumbnail previews will be saved to cache.

The larger taskbar thumbnails show up a little different in Internet Explorer. By default, this feature is enabled in Windows 10, You can also disable this Taskbar thumbnail preview in different methods. Now you can really watch a video from your taskbar thumbnail. And here’s the taskbar thumbnail enlarged to 380px.
