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Tweak your Windows animations with Lebendig

Lebendig is a free Windows utility that adds a bit of eye candy to your window transitions. When you launch or close a window you can have it fade in or out, scroll down from the top of the screen, up from the bottom, or move from left to right or vice versa. Overall there are about 15 transitions to choose from, although to be honest, some of them looked pretty much identical to us.

You can adjust just how windows look when they launch, or when they close or specify which types of windows you'd like to be affected. For example, if you want program windows to use the default Windows animations while Explorer windows fade in and out, you can do that.

Lebendig comes from the developer of DExposE2, an Exposé clone for Windows. And while Lebendig certainly isn't the only tool that adds a bit of eye candy to Windows XP, it's worth checking out for its low memory footprint. It tends to use 8MB of RAM or less.

[via Lifehacker]

Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware

DExposeE2: Expose clone for Windows

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Windows XP's task switcher is functional if you just want to flip between running applications. The 3D task switcher in Windows Vista is a lot prettier, but it's not really much more useful since you can only really see a live preview of one application at a time. For many, Apple's Exposé task switcher is the holy grail: It shows live previews of every running application on your desktop and makes it easy to switch back and forth between programs with just a click or two.

DExposE2 is an Exposé clone that brings the same functionality to Windows XP and Vista. Hit the F10 button and your screen will darken a bit and DExposE2 will bring up large thumbnails of all your applications. You can use the arrow keys to move between applications, and hit enter to bring one to the forefront.

This isn't the only utility that brings Exposé-like features to Windows. Switcher and SmallWindows both do pretty much the same thing. But DExposE2 has some of the smoothest transitions we've seen, and it's easy to customize your options and do things like change your keyboard shortcuts.

[via gHacks]

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