Rating: 5
Version tested: 2.1
Visual Task Tips is a lightweight shell enhancement utility for Win XP that provides a Vista-style thumbnail preview of a minimized window in the task bar simply by placing the mouse arrow over it.
Here’s what you need to know about this software:
- A very small program that takes very little resources
- Does what it promises to do very well. I will say, however, that in some instances of minimized browser pages it displayed a thumbnail preview of a previous page rather than the current one (it eventually refreshed to the actual page).
- Is 100% free.
The author’s website states that this software may have problems previewing some draw themselves in unusual ways to improve performance, a limitation which apparently cannot be worked around. I’ve used this software for a few days now and have yet to encounter this (even for MS Word, I might add, which the author’s website sites as one example of such applications).
I love shell enhancements, and I really like this program; if you’re like me you will will too. I recommend it highly.
Compatibility: Windows XP.
Go to the program home page to download the latest version.
I’ve been using this for a few months. I love it!
One of the most useful enhancements I’ve happened upon.
Really cool, good job! It would be more useful though if the previews could be customised(e.g. I’d like to make them bigger so I could actually see more, they are so small).
LOL!! This is a great enhancement to windows!!! It was one of the features of Vista that I love, but for some dumb reason will not work correctly on my PC, but thanks a lot for this!! I have both XP and Vista installed, and it works great on both!!
Free for non-commercial use only