"miniMIZE" is a small utility which puts all minimized applications on Desktop as thumbnails. So whenever you minimize a window, it gets minimized on Desktop as a small thumbnail.

You can double-click on the thumbnail to restore the window. Its a cool desktop enhancement utility.

You can also change various options using its settings like:

• Start miniMIZE at Windows startup
• Show icon in system tray
• Hide or unhide taskbar buttons
• Desktop Thumbnails size
• Opacity level
• Thumbnails position on Desktop
• Hotkeys
• Exclusions List

You can download this small utility from following link:

Download miniMIZE

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PS: Although the site says it only works for Windows XP but we have checked and it works on Vista as well.

Thanks to "Michael" for suggesting this utility...

This article was posted in Software Zone, Windows Vista, Windows XP.

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