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Window Previews No-operative

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  • Started 3 years ago by nu4chune
  • Latest reply from germ-x
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nu4chune
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I have lost use of the preview windows that appear when you hover over the taskbar icons. Tired of troubleshooting please help

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vistual
vistual
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hi nu4chune,
you didnt mention what youve done so far to troubleshoot so right off the bat - i wanna ask - have you ....
right clicked on desktop/ selected personalize / selected window color and appearance and checked to see if aero is enabled ?

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nu4chune
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I have in fact and aero is selected, however i am unable to uncheck it because it is unclickable. I have troubleshooted it and windows says "windows device manager disabled" i click to enable it, and it remains disabled.. I do have a preview that comes on but its simply text, like in older models of windows. still up the creek without my previews

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vistual
vistual
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types services.msc in your run box - hit enter - make sure themes are enabled in services.

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nu4chune
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Status: Started
Start up type: At
-Still no change, I'm starting to think re-installing windows is my only option.. Would you know if Aero is tempermental with resolution? Im starting to think maybe thats my problem

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vistual
vistual
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i see ....
what did it say as far as start up type (above you only wrote "At")
did you mean automatic ?
if so - yeah thats what it should be
i couldnt say weather or not resolution would have any affect - i dont knw , really.
forgot to ask if you have ......
- right clicked on your start button
- selected properties
- checked under the taskbar tab to make sure that "show windows preview (thumbnails)" is checked

EDIT:
check out the download here

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nu4chune
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still no change. ty for trying-steve

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germ-x
germ-x
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try reading this link and see if it might resolve your problem.

g-x

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