Get Vista Taskbar Thumbnail Previews in Windows XP
It was only a matter of time before people started cloning Windows Vista features and adding them into Windows XP. One of my favorite Vista features is the thumbnails that popup when you mouse over the taskbar. And now I can use them in XP as well.
The utility we'll use is called Visual Tooltip, which is a hybrid dock / thumbnail applicaton. With a few tweaks to the settings, we can make it work just like Vista thumbnails.
Here's what it looks like on my desktop… pretty sweet!
To make your thumbnails look the same as mine, just follow these couple of steps. Download and start the application, and open up the options from the tray icon.
Increase the size of the sliders to make the thumbnail bigger, and then uncheck the option for "Size proportional to the target window".
Click on the Display tab, and then uncheck the "Show window title"
That's all there is to it.
Thanks for the tip
I was wondering if using this results in an significant increase in memory usage? I'm using a laptop hence the concern as I run a fair number of programs at once.
Thanks!
doesnt show skype window
OI!!
I'm having problems with it none of the setting i choose stick as soon as i click cancel or Ok it closes the window then i click the tool bar icon for options and it pops up in french and even then iu can choose english but that wont stick either
i think i realsied what i did wrong your not supposed to run files from zips correct? so i have to extract them to a new folder right?
Any idea if V.Tooltip has significant advantage over V.TASKtip?
Muy agradecido por los trucos y consejos entregados.
Saludos.
It doesnt work on my vista .. i dont get the option to display it under taskbar & start menu properties
oi i cant do what u r telling me to do
i just wanted to say THANK YOU! Thanks for the hard work you put into hookin this up for everyone to use—and for free. How generous and ingenious!!! Really — You Rule!!!! It was easy to install and easy to tweak. I love it. And again—thanks for sharing:)
I put this program in my start menu to start with windows. However I just get the start box and have to select run myself. How can I write a scrip or something to have the program to start without any input from me?
By the way this is way cool!
Thanks
Keith
This works great. One problem though is that when you mouse over the taskbar, you get a flash of the default 'yellow text caption' which is a bit annoying. How would you solve this? Cheers.
i will fix the problem about the language the fix is avalible at http://chsalmon.club.fr/fichie.....nglish.lng
( copy in the same directory than VisualTooltip.exe )
i need this theam for my computers
the task bar is windows xp luna and the title bar of firefox is linux theme
Sir, Clicking on the website: http://chsalmon.club.fr/fichie.....nglish.lng and I get this error: 410 Gone. My question is this, did the website move or is it shutdown. Or it is me (it can too). Thanks for any assistance. AJ
It appears that the site has moved to this url:
http://www.chrisnsoft.com/visual-tooltip/
Tried this program. I dunno it feels a tad messy to me
Thanks. I can sometimes use this program for Luna XP themes.
Thank you so much. I've wanted this for sooooooooo long. =)
Whenever I try to run it, this application crashes.
I am running Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600].
I have vista..
and on taskbar and start menu.
i dont have the option to let the thumbnails show..
why is this?
i want it on sooo bad.
It doesn't work for me, do I have to restart or something.