Taskbar Viewer

Summary

Taskbar Viewer displays a thumbnail image of a window's contents whenever you hover your mouse over a button in the taskbar. It's very similar to Windows Vista Aero's 'Live Taskbar Thumbnails' and 'Windows Flip' (ALT+TAB) implementation with some extra enhancements.

Taskbar Viewer supports multiple monitor configurations, any placement of the Windows Taskbar, Grouped buttons, and more...

Taskbar Viewer uses minimal memory and CPU resources. And, it does not use system wide hooks as do similar utilities!

Requirements

Taskbar Viewer requires Windows XP, Windows 2003, or Windows Vista (classic theme). Support for Windows 2000 and Aero may be added in a future release.

Features

Click the Play buttons on the videos below to see live screen captures of the features below.


Live Taskbar

Hovering your mouse over any toolbar button will display the associated window for that button in a thumbnail image.

Rotate the Mouse Wheel to quickly move between the buttons.

Thumbnail Image Resize

Hold down the SHIFT key while rotating your Mouse Wheel to change the size of the thumbnail images.

Task Switcher

Press the CTRL key and move the Mouse Wheel to display the Task Switcher Window. A thumbnail image of all applications in the taskbar will appear.

Use your Mouse Wheel, or Cursor Keys, to quickly switch between applications. Press the Left mouse button , or Enter key, to select the application, or use the ESC key to close the Task Switcher window.


Known Issues

  • If the application window is minimized, Taskbar Viewer will show a cached thumbnail image or the application's icon.
  • Some programs don't respond properly to the technique used by Taskbar Viewer to capture it's window and their thumbnail image will be solid black. These applications include GIMP and Office 2007.

Download

Taskbar Viewer Version 0.1 is completely FREE and has no spyware, nags, timeouts, or other bad stuff.

  • Click here to download with the installer (recommended).
  • Or, click here to download just the executables. You will need to extract them to a folder and run the TBViewer.exe application.

Requests...

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