Microsoft's solution to alt+tab

For those of you who use the Alt+Tab key combination to switch between open windows on your desktop, I am sure you have encountered times when you cannot distinguish one window from the other due to having more than one instance of the same program open.

Microsoft became aware of this draw-back after releasing the XP operating system and subsequently released a "Power Toy" to resolve this issue. The Power Toy resolves this issue by replacing the program icons with actual screenshots of your open windows. This way you can locate exactly which window you wish to switch to, which is immensely useful when navigating between several SAP windows at one time.

Here are pictures of using the Alt+Tab key combination both pre- and post- installation of the Power Toy:



As you can see in the first example above, it is impossible to differentiate between the IE instances and the SAP instances by looking at the icons. In the subsequent example, the screenshot clearly differentiates the windows.

Here are the instructions to install:

-Copy URL to browser: http://download. microsoft. com/download/ whistler/ Install/2/ WXP/EN-US/ TaskswitchPowert oySetup.exe
-Choose "Run" from pop-up dialog box
-Choose "Run" a second time, this will kick-off the installation of the Power Toy
-Once you get the "Installation Complete" dialog, the toy is successfully installed. No need to reboot your PC.

thanks abdullah.

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Bring back the deleted Showdesktop icon in quick launch menu bar

Do you ever feel the need of retrival of show desktop icon in the quick launch menu bar after you removed it intentionally or unintentionally by mistake.

Now you dont need to worry about it.there is a method which will bring it back once it is deleted.Here is the one for which you have to create a notepad file named Showdesktop.scf and then type the following text in it.

[shell]
command=2
Iconfile=explorer.exe,3
[taskbar]
Command=ToggleDesktop

and remember that there should be no space in between these characters.

Then after createing this file save with this file with the name ShowDesktop.scf. After this drag this file to the quick launch menu bar.your work is done.

This methods works in vista also though Surprisingly icon which appears on retrival
looks good in XP than vista.Actually this is partially true when i first tried this icon was a blank
white square but on second attempt this looks good as shown in the pic above.

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