Is there a way to disable the layout preview on the drawing tab?

[Anonymous]

Somehow, way more often than I want, while trying to do something else in the ribbon, I get this layout preview that pops up on my drawing tabs at the top of the screen. And somehow, it can select a tab without me even clicking anything, then the drawing starts trying to switch tabs (in a drawing where doing so is VERY slow). I don't really understand why it does that without even clicking on anything, and I'd really like to disable this preview as I never actually NEED to use it, it just happens accidentallypreview tab.png. Is there any way to do that?

[user181 · Accepted solution]

You can set FILETABTHUMBOVER to 0 and it will not switch when you hover over the tabs but will show the preview

or 

You can set FILETABPREVIEW to 0 and the preview will be gone.

or

You can set both to 0 and not see the preview or switch views

[Anonymous]

Exactly what I needed, thank you!

[neilyj666]

FILETABTHUMBHOVER rather than FILETABTHUMBOVER...

[neilyj666]

FILETABTHUMBHOVER rather than FILETABTHUMBOVER...

[mcfarlie6996]

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@user181 wrote:

You can set FILETABTHUMBOVER to 0 and it will not switch when you hover over the tabs but will show the preview

or 

You can set FILETABPREVIEW to 0 and the preview will be gone.

or

You can set both to 0 and not see the preview or switch views

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Wow, setting both of these to '0' does nothing and still shows tabs and the ability to switch tabs/layouts without clicking anything. This is driving me nuts. 

[user181]

Setting those to 0 will disable the preview and switching. Maybe you need to close and restart your autocad and check them again. 

[clukeDGNCC]

Related question to this.  Architecture 2025:  I have changed the mentioned setting to "0" and those have helped.  However, now, when I want to close this drawing tab, I want to click the "x" on the tab, but before I can get it selected, the list of tabs now pop up and I can't select the "X" quick enough and thus the drawing switches to the tab view that I inadvertently selected.  Is there any way to turn off all these pop up menus so I can just select the "X"? 

[carlos_chuecosC69H6]

Very useful, thanks!