Windows 7's useful taskbar is great, but if you don't like waiting for the thumbnails to show up when you hover your mouse over a taskbar item, a simple registry hack will speed things up. Tech blog ...

A feature of Windows 7 is that it will show you a preview, or small thumbnail image, of the open windows for a particular program when you hover over it. For example, if you have 3 Internet Explorer ...

Windows Vista only: Vista's thumbnail taskbar preview feature is attractive, but unless you've got superhuman vision, the very small thumbnails aren't all that useful. Freeware application Thumbnail ...

This handy freebie lets you enlarge those annoyingly tiny thumbnail previews. Much as I love Windows 7’s window-preview thumbnails, which pop up when you mouse over any running program in the taskbar, ...

Our ‘12 year young’ TWC forum member is back! This time with a tweaking utility called Windows 7 Taskbar Thumbnail Customizer. This tool will allow you to resize & tweak the Windows 7 taskbar ...

While using Windows 11/10, you may need to cycle or flip through your taskbar thumbnails. You can see the thumbnail views when you hover over the taskbar icons. While most of us use our mouse cursor, ...

Finally, a way to make Vista’s thumbnail previews large enough to be useful. Much as I love the idea behind Vista’s window-preview thumbnails, which pop up when you mouse over any running program in ...

At PDC today, Microsoft gave the first public demonstration of Windows 7. Until now, the company has been uncharacteristically secretive about its new OS; over the past few months, Microsoft has let ...

TechRadar has a great post on early Windows 7 concepts that didn’t make the cut— where they originated and what actual features they directly influenced—such as the “Bat Signal”, which became Aero ...

Although Windows 7's revamped taskbar has largely received praise, it's not perfect. In fact, it can't be. It's impossible to accommodate every neurotic proclivity – unless you have the proper ...

But so far, there was one complaint I continually had with it. On a small screen with a high resolution, it gets difficult to differentiate between the thumbnail previews that each icon generates for ...