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Vista tip - make your Alt-Tab thumbnail images larger
by Brad Linder Jun 19th 2007 at 4:30PM
Fortunately Microsoft has also updated the Alt-Tab view in Windows Vista, providing live thumbnails of your open applications. In fact, if you've got a video playing in one window, you can watch a tiny version in the Alt-Tab view (or by using your mouse to scroll over your media player in your taskbar). That's both cool, and useful if you're juggling between a dozen open windows.
But if you've got a high resolution monitor, you may notice that the Alt-Tab view takes up a small chunk of your screen and presents tiny little thumbnails. CyberNet has a little registry hack that will let you resize your Alt-Tab view to take up more screen space and use larger icons. If you feel like mucking around with the registry settings, it looks like you could also tweak a few more display settings.
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Colin said 7:44AM on 6-20-2007
Quick correction:
"That's both cool, and useful if you're juggling between a dozen open windows."
I think you meant:
"That's both cool, and *useless* if you're juggling between a dozen open windows."
Full Motion Video: Useless for identifying things on any platform since 1895™.
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Eric said 9:35AM on 6-20-2007
I don't understand why MS couldn't have made this dynamic in the sense that it would autoscale itself for your monitor AND for how many windos you had open. Say for instance you only have two applications open, alt-tab gives them each a half of the monitor, if you had 4, it would use 1/4th's, etc. It was my understand that the new API should be able to handle this. However, I am not a programmer, and I don't run Vista yet, soo..
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