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Great Expose Clone for Windows Vista

The market seems to be full of OS X Expose clones, but this is the first one that I’ve found that not only works really well, but has a ton of customization options. It’s called Switcher, and you might already be familiar since it’s been out for a while.

You can switch between the default tiled view that we’re all used to:

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Or you can go with the Dock view, which shows the current window in a larger tile, and hitting the tab key will switch between the tiles.

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The standard customization screen gives you most of the common options, but you can use the advanced screen to let you change just about anything you want.

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The default shortcut key is Win+Tab, which replaces the Flip3D key, but you can customize it if you’d like to use something else.

Hint: If you turn off the animation it’ll even work really well on older computers.

Download Switcher from Insentient.net

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This article was originally written on 07/20/07 Tagged with: Windows Aero Glass, Windows Vista

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Comments (9)

  1. m@ik

    IMHO the best expose clone available! Works fantastic for me, i’m using it for a while now.

  2. ph15h

    I’ll try this. that other one i saw on lifehacker doesn’t work so well on my laptop.

  3. Heislyc

    This is super useful and smooth.

  4. Ramu

    The best Expose clone I have tried. Very stable and looks better. I think it is almost better than Expose since it seems to be more customizable.

  5. Spacegold

    Looks pretty handy to me, except that I would much prefer to bring forward the window I want with a mouse click.

  6. Nocash350

    For some reason when i try to run the program it gives me an error saying
    “Switcher has stopped working” i’m running vista home premium so what’s going on?

  7. Nehalem

    works smoothly in Windows 7 build 7057 running on E4500 / 3GB DDR2 / GeForce 8500GT 1GB

  8. silentcon

    How much ram does it use?

  9. wbkang

    I’m surprised nobody tried typing titles of programs. It’s like better than expose.


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