Good thing is, you can easily turn off saving of taskbar thumbnail previews, so that they are always freshly created. This can sometimes lead to thumbnails not getting displayed correctly, because of corrupted cache. These previews, while functional, keep on getting cached in the memory as they are generated. It lets you view an instant thumbnail preview of an open window when you hover your mouse pointer over its icon in the taskbar. The taskbar thumbnail previews is one such feature, that’s equal parts eye candy and functionality. What this essentially implies is that the Desktop of the revolutionary Windows 10 is more powerful than ever, having more features than its previous versions. Although the signature elements of the Windows desktop (Taskbar, Icons, Notification Area etc.) have maintained their basic appearance and purpose during the course of evolution of the Operating System over the years, they’ve also had a number of subtle refinements added to them with each subsequent iteration of Windows.
This tutorial describes how to disable saving of taskbar thumbnail previews in Windows 10.