One of the new features of the Windows 7 operating system is the taskbar preview feature which will display a thumbnail of taskbar items whenever the user moves the computer mouse over the icon in the taskbar. Windows 7 will then display thumbnails of the program windows plus additional information that include the title of each window.
That’s an interesting preview feature which comes in handy whenever there is no other way of finding out which window contains the information that need to be accessed. A practical example would be multiple Windows Explorer windows that are open. To access a specific one the user would need to click on them until the target was found. Windows 7 makes the selection process easier thanks to the preview thumbnails.
The information that are displayed cannot be customized in Windows 7, at least not in the Control Panel or by looking at the properties of the taskbar.
The Windows 7 Taskbar Thumbnail Customizer program changes that. It can be used to change several parameters of the taskbar thumbnail in Windows 7 including the minimum and maximum size, spacing, delay time and margins.
Sliders next to each parameter can be used to change the values. It is for instance possible to increase the thumbnail size from the standard value of 200 pixels to a maximum of 512 pixels.
The parameters are self-explanatory and the Restore Defaults button ensures that the default values can be restored if needed.
The portable software program can be downloaded from The Windows Club website.
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