Control display of drawing thumbnails on Windows 10 taskbar

[henrique.han]

Hello,

Been looking for this for a while, I'm starting to think it's more of a Windows thing rather than an AutoCAD System Variable or such.

As the imagem attached shows, when I hover the mouse over my AutoCAD instance in the Windows 10 taskbar, I get as many thumbnails as I have files opened in that same instance.

However, in a coworker's computer it shows only one thumbnail, regardless of the ammount of drawings opened (it shows only the most recently edited).

Is there a way to change this, either through AutoCAD or Windows configurations?

[pendean · Accepted solution]

Explore here https://www.thewindowsclub.com/tenable-or-disable-taskbar-thumbnail-preview-in-windows-10

[henrique.han]

So it is a Windows issue. Thank you, I'll look further into it.

[BrianHailey]

I know this is an old thread but the system variable you are looking for is TASKBAR. Set it to 0 and it will only display the current drawing. Set it to 1 and it displays all the open drawing. It also affects the behavior of using Win-TAB to switch applications.

Putting this here in case someone in the future is looking for this and finds this thread.