How to Enable New Taskbar Thumbnails and New Copilot Animations in Windows 11 26052

In this article, I will show you How to Enable New Taskbar Thumbnails and New Copilot Animations in Windows 11 26052.

In Windows 11 26052, Microsoft is testing more Features that will improve the user experience, such as the New Taskbar Thumbnails and New Copilot AI Animations. In this article, I will show you how to enable them.

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Download ViveTool from Github

You will need to download ViveTool, which is a small app that will help us enable hidden features from Windows.

After you download ViveTool, you will need to extract the contents of the archive into the System32 location so that we can have full administrative privileges to the operating system.

Right-click on the archive and then click on Extract all. Select the System32 location and then click on Extract. You will also need to provide some administrative privileges.

After you’ve done that, you will need to open CMD as administrator and then copy and paste the following commands:

Enable New Taskbar Thumbnails:

vivetool /enable /id:29532725

Enable New Copilot Animations:

vivetool /enable /id:45596742 /variant:3 (use 1 to get only the badge, or 2 for no animations)

You will now need to restart your computer, for the changes to take effect.

After the restart, you will notice the New Taskbar Thumbnails, and also the New Copilot AI Animations when you are copying Text or an Image.

For a more in-depth tutorial, you can watch the video below from the YouTube channel.