How to Make the Windows Taskbar Thumbnails Bigger (Without Software)

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When you float your mouse pointer over a catch in the taskbar, Windows demonstrates to you a sneak peak of that window as a matter of course, however that review is normally tiny. Fortunately with a snappy registry hack, we can make those thumbnails greater. 

The incredible thing about this tip is that it doesn't oblige downloading some tricky utility from some site that you presumably shouldn't trust. What's more once you're carried out, the thumbnails will quit being modest and really be valuable.

How to Change the Size of the Taskbar Thumbnails

Begin by utilizing WIN + R to open the Run dialog, sort regedit.exe, hit enter, and afterward scan down through to the accompanying registry key: 

Hkey_current_user\software\microsoft\ 

Windows\currentversion\explorer\taskband 

When you are there, right-click on the privilege hand side and pick New -> 32-bit DWORD, name it Minthumbsizepx and provide for it a Decimal estimation of 500 or less. This worth will be in pixels, as you can envision. 

When you've made this alter, you'll have to restart Explorer, which could be possible by logging out rapidly, or utilizing the mystery system for restarting Explorer, by right-clicking on the Start Menu while holding down the CTRL + SHIFT keys. In Windows 7, you'll have to do this on the Start Menu itself, while in Windows 8 or 10 you'll do it on the Taskbar itself.

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Once you’ve exited out of Explorer, your Taskbar will disappear, so use the CTRL + SHIFT + ESC keyboard combination to bring up Task Manager, go to File -> Run, and then type explorer and hit the Enter key.

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Much the same as that, your taskbar thumbnails will be greater. Despite the fact that you could have recently logged out and back in.