If you’re using Windows XP, you can get previews of the taskbar thumbnail images by right-clicking on the taskbar and selecting “Properties.” Then, under “Thumbnail Previews,” you’ll see a list of options. You can choose to have the taskbar thumbnail previews always show up, or only show up when you mouse over them. You can also choose to have them appear only when you mouse over them, or only show up when you click on them.
The utility we’ll use is called Visual Tooltip, which is a hybrid dock / thumbnail applicaton. With a few tweaks to the settings, we can make it work just like Vista thumbnails.
Here’s what it looks like on my desktop… pretty sweet!
To make your thumbnails look the same as mine, just follow these couple of steps. Download and start the application, and open up the options from the tray icon.
Increase the size of the sliders to make the thumbnail bigger, and then uncheck the option for “Size proportional to the target window”.
Click on the Display tab, and then uncheck the “Show window title”
That’s all there is to it.
Download Visual Tooltip 2.1
