Windows 7 Tips and Tricks - How To Make Icons Display More Quickly On the Taskbar

Windows 7 Tips and Tricks - How To Make Icons Display More Quickly On the Taskbar 

When you over your mouse over an icon on the taskbar, text appears to show you what that icons is. This articel provides step by step instruction you can use to make that text appear more quickly.

The taskbar provides shortcut to frequently used items, allowing you to simply click on an icon and open the associated program. When you hover your mouse over an icon, you can easily see what that icon is and what it does.
unfortunately, those descriptons can be slow to appear sometimes, and that can reduse your productivity and increase the amount of time it takes to open your programs. If your are having this problem, you can tweak windows 7 to make those thumbnail descriptions display much more quickly. Just follow these steps to make the taskbar more useful.

Click the start button and type regedit in the search box. This opens the Windows Registry. Note that you should always back up the registry before you make any changes.

Navigate the registry and go to the
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Mouse section
Highlight the MouseHoverTime setting and double click it

Lower the number in the box to display the thumnails more quickly. The default setting is 400 miliseconds, but you can choose any number you wish - 150 milliseconds is good choise. After you are done making the change, simply click the red x to close the registry editor and see the result of your tweak.

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