Question Taskbar query - when I hover my mouse over taskbar, it minimizes other pages

[dodowindows]

Hi something that irritates me with Windows 10, it's difficult to describe but hopefully somebody knows what I mean;

Lets say I have two Firefox Windows open and I therefore have a firefox icon on my taskbar. On my second monitor I have a Chrome window open which is streaming video.
If I click the firefox icon on the taskbar, two mini windows will pop up showing me the two firefox windows. If I leave my mouse on this for longer than about half a second, it'll basically minimise everything until I've clicked off the firefox icon. This means that the video I'm streaming on my second monitor gets unecessarily minimsed and in its place all I can see is the desktop. The window will re-appear once I've clicked one of the firefox windows.

How do I stop this 'feature'. I don't know who benefits from this odd feature whereby everything gets minimised. Basically the question I'm asking is can I just have the taskbar NOT minimise things? If I wanted things minimised I can just click the minimise icon myself, I dont need windows to think ahead for me.

 

[Colif]

i don't know about being minimised but if you hover mouse over the small image and leave it there, it hides everything else until you stop

Try these steps:

1. Open Registry Editor by running regedit command.
2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced.
3. In the right pane, find or create registry DWORD named DisablePreviewWindow.
4. Double click on it and set its Value data to 1.

Note: It is recommended that you create a System Restore point before trying above steps.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...views-in/1526f2f8-e29b-4a1c-8293-7b2d9e542abc

backing up registry before you do it is a good idea: https://neosmart.net/wiki/backup-restore-registry/

 

[dodowindows]

Yeah that's what I meant, it hides everything and its just totally pointless. I was hoping that there was an easier setting within windows/ control panel that could be turned off to remove this feature.

thanks for the links. I'll try it

Many thanks