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Thumbnails not displaying

Anonymous 11 years ago updated by Michael (Ramen Software) 8 years ago 9

I am running Windows 7 Home Premium, 32bit and 7+ Taskbar Tweaker 4.2.7

I cannot get thumbnails to show.

Under Hovering, with either "Show Thumbnail preview (default)", or "List", the List option shows.  "Tooltip" and "Nothing" work as expected.  I have tried all sorts of options and no thumbnails.  Any suggestions?

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Are thumbnails displayed when 7+ Taskbar Tweaker is not running?
I guess not.

I can think of a couple of reasons for the issue:
* You're using a basic theme, which doesn't support thumbnails.
* You have thumbnails disabled through a registry option.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/75804-taskbar-list-thumbnail-previews-mode-change.html
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Yep, that was it.  I was using a "Basic" rather than "Aero" theme.

Hope this helps some others too!


Cheers

Dennis W

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Are thumbnails displayed when 7+ Taskbar Tweaker is not running?
I guess not.

I can think of a couple of reasons for the issue:
* You're using a basic theme, which doesn't support thumbnails.
* You have thumbnails disabled through a registry option.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/75804-taskbar-list-thumbnail-previews-mode-change.html

Well .... it was almost it!

If I open several Word documents, the thumbnails all display properly, and if I open one Excel spreadsheet, it's thumbnail displays as it should, however if I open more than one Excel spreadsheet, each Excel thumbnail now consists of a blank, with a small Excel icon in the middle.  Is this an Excel problem rather than 7TT?

I am running Office 2007.


Dennis W

I'm pretty sure it's not 7TT's fault, but the best way to make sure is to close the tweaker and restart Excel.

That said, Excel was reported to have some other issues with regard to the taskbar, e.g.:

http://rammichael.com/7-taskbar-tweaker/comment-page-11#comment-2312

I turned off 7TT's auto start-up and re-booted the computer.  With 2 Excel spreadsheets open I again got the blank thumbnail with the small Excel logo, so it looks like it is an Excel problem.  Thanks for your prompt responses.


I will try this on the work computer which is also running Windows 7, but Enterprise Edition.


Regards

Dennis Wright

Melbourne Australia.

Checked thumbnail operation with multiple Excel windows on work PC, Windows7 Enterprise Edition.  Thumbnails display as expected.  Next loaded 7TT and thumbnails continue to display correctly.

Back to my PC ... as I loaded 7TT BEFORE I switched to an Aero display will now try uninstalling 7TT, checking for thumbnail display and then reinstall 7TT and check again.  Keep you posted!

Dennis

7TT doesn't make permanent changes to the system, so if you disabled autorun, restarted, and the issue still wasn't solved, it means 7TT is not guilty here.
Uninstalling it won't change much.

Thumbnail previews don't show occasionally, but I can get them back if I drag-open the context menu of an application (at least for a while).


I'm using 7Taskbbar Tweaker v5.0, but the issue also occurred in earlier versions.