Visual Tooltip: Get Windows Vista and 7 Style Taskbar Thumbnail Previews in Windows XP

Windows Vista and Windows 7 come with a new cool feature called “Taskbar Thumbnails” which shows live thumbnail preview of the running program when you hover your mouse cursor over its button present in Taskbar.

If you are using Windows XP and want to have similar feature, following freeware will definitely help you.

Visual Tooltip is a free tool which brings this new feature to Windows XP and makes it possible to show a thumbnail preview of a window by hovering the mouse cursor over its button in Taskbar.

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Following is a preview of this awesome utility in action:

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Features List:

  • The thumbnails can be moved anywhere on the desktop.
  • The thumbnails can be added in a “dock bar”.
  • The thumbnails can have various rotations.
  • The dock bar can accept all window’s thumbnails.
  • The tray icons can be added automatically.
  • The dock bar can replace the taskbar.

You can download it using following link:

Download Link

Published in: Software, Windows XP

About the author: Vishal Gupta (also known as VG) has been awarded with Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) award. He holds Masters degree in Computer Applications (MCA). He has written several tech articles for popular newspapers and magazines and has also appeared in tech shows on various TV channels.

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