Windows 7 Taskbar

[jncrs]

I like Windows 7 except one feature that needs to be tweaked or I need to learn how to use it. When I hold my mouse over an open application in the taskbar it opens up thumbnails of all of the pages I have open in that application. I would love to know a key combination that I can hold down when it opens the tasks that would keep them open until I let off of the key. I get busy and stop for a minute to read an email or two and get distracted doing something else. Next thing you know I have 5 or 10 emails open in Outlook. I would like for the taskbar to keep the thumbnails open as I work through them closing the ones I don't need any more.

The way it is now I have to close one then go back to the Outlook icon and that opens them up again and then I close another and then go back. If I could just keep it open till I wanted it to close.

[mikeL]

Windows Flip (3D) can be accessed by using the Alt + Tab keys, this will work if you have Windows 7 Home Premium thru Ultimate

[jncrs]

Here is a picture of the Taskbar when it is showing the open documents under Outlook. I would like to be able to hover over them one at a time and close the ones that I am finished with, without the whole bar closing when I close the one document.

I could then take a look at the second document and decide if I wanted to close it or not.

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[The_Wiseman]

It shouldn't close as long as you stay within the window; if you close one on the right edge, it moves the edge so that your cursor is now outside the box--but if you move to the left quickly it will keep the active documents window open. I'm not sure if there's a key combo to access/keep it open, but using the mouse works well for me.

[Hi Ho]

Are you closing the windows using the X in the thumbnail? If so, you should not have any problems. I have my taskbar set to "Combine when full" (Properties) and here's how mine works.

http://screenjel.ly/PQWDpxrG-Eo