Windows Vista and 7 comes with a new cool feature "Taskbar Thumbnails" which shows a live thumbnail of the program when you hover your mouse cursor over its button 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 makes it possible to show a thumbnail of a window by hovering the mouse cursor over a button in Taskbar.
Following is a preview of this awesome utility in action:

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.
This article was posted by VG in following section: Software, Windows XP.
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Azaii
great find. im using it now.
Thanks!
Azaii
Sora
thank you for posting this... i've been searching for this for a very long time... now my search is over!
kanda
dat de grate component we must install on xp. but it not exactly look like vista thumbnails when you play video files. visual tooltips captured the images only guy..anywhere thank you for posting this
rahul
nice :-)
Chris
Dude, you are great. awesome work. Thank you very much
I love you.