One of the recent additions to the Windows version of the Google Chrome web browser was support for the Windows 7 taskbar to show preview thumbnails of all open tabs of the web browser in the taskbar. That feature addition caused some controversy as it was not possible to disable it. We recently covered how [...]
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Windows 7 Taskbar Thumbnail Customizer
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 [...]
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How To Pin Files And Folders To The Windows 7 Taskbar
Microsoft has added some interesting new features to the taskbar in Windows 7. This includes the ability to pin programs to it and make use of jumplists to access program functions and recently used files. Some users recently contacted me asking if there was a way to add files and folders to the taskbar. And [...]
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Create Windows 7 Jumplists With Jumplist Launcher
The Windows 7 taskbar is without doubt one of the biggest usability changes in Windows 7. And jumplists are part of that next to programs that can be pinned to the taskbar and thumbnail previews that are displayed when hovering the mouse over active icons. Jumplists on the other hand become active when a user [...]
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Windows 7 Taskbar Tweaker
One of the most prominent features of Microsoft’s new operating system Windows 7 is the taskbar which its new functionality. The new features include the ability to pin programs to the taskbar, display thumbnail previews of open windows and tabs (for example from Windows Explorer, Internet Explorer or the latest version of the Firefox web [...]
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Windows 7 Like Taskbar In Windows XP
You might have heard about the Windows 7 Taskbar which will change the interface and functionality of the Windows Taskbar quite a bit. One of the changes is the iconized taskbar which no longer displays the names of the folders and programs by default. It looks similar to the Quick Launch bar. The advantage of [...]