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30 Jun 2008
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Platform: Windows XP
Manufacturer: Visual Task Tips
Size: 103Kb
Number of Downloads: 1572
Price: Free
Whereas Microsoft and Apple spend time developing new technologies for their forthcoming operating system, third-party developers emulate these technologies for previous operating systems. Sometimes they can be successful, but often the software generated has mixed results.
One useful development within Windows Vista is the visual preview you’ll see when you hold your mouse over a minimised application, residing in your Task Bar. In Windows XP, you just get information about the minimised window, but the more you have open, the more difficult it is to determine which minimised window applies to which open application. In Windows Vista, hold your mouse over a minimised application and you’ll see a visual preview of the application.
Visual Task Tips is an application specifically designed for Windows XP that enables you to see a visual preview. However, there are limitations. Some applications do not ‘draw’ themselves correctly, so you can’t see a preview of applications such as Microsoft Word, amongst others.
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Task Tips and Word
I just brought up a perfectly good preview of a page in Word 2003, contrary to the article's claim that VTT does not preview Word panes. In my view, it's real limitation is that if you group open Windows on the taskbar, VTT will not work (obviously, since there is more than one pane open for the application. Still I think its a useful add on that I use often. Esp. to check mail.
Posted by: John Wickstrom 14 Jul 2008