Get Vista Taskbar Thumbnail Previews in Windows XP

[Anusha]

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!

http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/4248/image0725468es0.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

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”.

http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/4140/visualtooltipoptions271fw7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Click on the Display tab, and then uncheck the “Show window title”

http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/8089/updatetitles717a5frt8.png (http://imageshack.us)

That’s all there is to it.

Download Visual Tooltip 2.1 (http://chsalmon.club.fr/index.php?en/Visual-tooltip-about)

[Anusha]

But remember, it won't be GPU accelerated as in Vista. The CPU will have to do all the necessary processing.

[Tissaka]

aha.. interesting.. :yes: thanks anu. ;)

[SAN_APIIT]

This could be useful, thanks machchang.....

[nEoN_wHitE]

apo eka mata allane na:(

[Anusha]

apo eka mata allane na:(
:lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl:

[pubudu_dias]

Everyone pls come to ElaKiri Help.....

[niteX]

The VTP 1 lookz better...but thiz wurks too.

[amila325]

hmmmm thanx but no thanx

[thusithagh]

is this another memory sucking thing like inspirat......

[Anusha]

is this another memory sucking thing like inspirat......
Try it for yourself. I can't test it.

[thusithagh]

Try it for yourself. I can't test it.

i m nt going 2 install bcos if it get slow once it will always run slow.

[Anusha]

i m nt going 2 install bcos if it get slow once it will always run slow.
:D

[chanakacm]

macho thanx elakiri ekak thama eka

[tckrockz]

apita moko ithin mewa lolz

[Anusha]

apita moko ithin mewa lolz
:yes: :D

[madurax86]

as i always say; vista is shit but supa in appearance n da microsoft ppl r lyin abt it all da time(gud for dose hu dont knw abt IT or comps)---u can change xp to get da vista look may b sum day it'll b hard to figure out whts xp n whts vista haha

[Anusha]

as i always say; vista is shit but supa in appearance n da microsoft ppl r lyin abt it all da time(gud for dose hu dont knw abt IT or comps)---u can change xp to get da vista look may b sum day it'll b hard to figure out whts xp n whts vista haha
Don't let the looks deceive you :D