How to Change Taskbar Program Preview Icons Size in Windows 7, 8 and 10

When you hover your mouse over an icon for a running app on the Taskbar, the thumbnail image that appears can be resized to any pixel size you specify.

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1. Type Regedit.exe into Start Menu to launch Registry Editor and navigate to the following registry key:

Code:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Taskband


2. Create a DWORD value named MinThumbSizePx

3. Double-click MinThumbSizePx and set its value data accordingly. I set it to 350 (Decimal) for this example (e.g. 200 for large thumbnails or 400 for very large ones).

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4. Exit the Registry Editor.

5. Logoff and log back in.

You can see it from below image that the taskbar thumbnails has grown bigger in size.

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