Comments on: Workaround for Vista Taskbar Thumbnail Previews Not Showing Correctly

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 06:50:22 +0000

Hey guys, i need your help

every time when i point my mouse over some open tasks on the taskbar, it will show a preview and it will go away. its doing that only for a second and thats it.
i tried everything from above but its not working…

how can i fix that? thanks

By: mxlexrd

mxlexrd — Wed, 27 May 2009 20:42:50 +0000

thanks this worked for me

By: robmaister

robmaister — Mon, 11 May 2009 06:41:17 +0000

batch file to do this:

@echo off
cls
echo restarting explorer.exe
taskkill /f /im explorer.exe
start explorer.exe
echo explorer.exe has successfully restarted…
exit

By: great full for u

great full for u — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:20:35 +0000

first thanx for Mike Oak thank u very much dud
i am very greatfull for u man thanx agian

By: JOHN-J

JOHN-J — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:58:48 +0000

NICHOLAS… you are the man!!!

I too, just recently installed Vista “Enterprise” at home (to help with video editing – utilizing all 8G of memory…etc.etc) and found my thumbnails to be all the same (default) picture. AHH! Frustrating.

I however, had the ‘tick’ next to “show thumbnails….” and it wasn’t working. I went back and selected “for best appearance” instead of the default (let windows decide) and it worked perfectly!!!

THANKS so much for showing us where to look, and helping us solve some of the growing pains!!!

By: Allen

Allen — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:54:08 +0000

I have Vista Home Edition, I tried all the suggestions and you know what. None of them worked. Thanks for all the tips, it was worth a try. No thumbs I might as well have XP

By: Rod

Rod — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 08:09:22 +0000

I had the same problem, tried the fix by ending the explorer process and starting a new explorer process and it worked for me. Thank you very much for your help.

By: steve

steve — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 15:41:32 +0000

Thank you so much guys – you were right, it corrected my problem of thumbnails not being displayed.

By: laura

laura — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 21:00:36 +0000

i tried what you said but it didn’t work.
its still clicked to show thumbnails and i have basic, its annoying because it worked before but now it doesn’t. please help, laura

By: Nikoli Edwards

Nikoli Edwards — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:04:56 +0000

The colour scheme thing really worked. Thank you! If you are having this problem i suggest you do this.