One of my favorite Vista features is the thumbnails that popup when you mouse over the taskbar.

And now I can use them in XP as well.

The utility we’ll use is called Visual Tooltip, which is a hybrid dock / thumbnail applicaton.

Get Vista Taskbar Thumbnail Previews in Windows XP

With a few tweaks to the prefs, 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.

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Download and start the app, and open up the options from the tray icon.

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