Filed under: Windows
Vista tip - make your Alt-Tab thumbnail images larger
by Brad Linder Jun 19th 2007
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.
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
