![]() The superbar application also indicates that there are multiple windows of the application open by providing extra overlays In the screenshot below, we can see that the applications - Windows Explorer, IE, Windows Media Player are open and the applications - FireFox, MSN Live Messenger, closed. The applications running appear as overlay icons in the superbar and others appear normal. With the new superbar, everything is an icon and as we saw earlier, thumbnail previews helps us to easily preview different instances of the same application.īut, how do I differentiate between the applications that are running and closed?Īt first, it looks hard to find which applications are running and closed, but it turns out that it isn't hard after all. Clicking on the icon switches to your desktop. This helps to have a peek of your desktop before you switch. It provides a preview of all windows open faded away into glass sheets when you hover over the icon. The show desktop icon is now moved to the right hand corner of the taskbar. It has got a slightly different location in the new superbar with some additional functionality. This is one of my favorite icons in the taskbar. With the new superbar, you can just hover on the thumbnail previews to get a preview of that window while the other windows fade away into glass sheets and easily switch to your application! You might need to minimize every other window opened to look for your application or use ALT + TAB or Windows Flip 3D to browse the applications. This is very important when you want to switch between applications when several other windows are open. The addition of the new improved thumbnail previews to the taskbar has led to a new feature called Aero Peek. ![]() For example, if you have three IE tabs open, you can see previews of all the three tabs and easily switch between them by just hovering or clicking over the IE icon in the taskbar. But with the new superbar, you can now see previews of all running instances of that application. Like Vista, Windows 7 taskbar also provides thumbnail previews of the running applications. ![]() The superbar by default uses large icons and is also more glassy than in Vista! The superbar has taken the Windows Taskbar to the next level since its launch in Windows 95. Here is an overview of the new Taskbar in Windows 7.Įven though the Taskbar is still named "Taskbar" in Windows 7, due to its fresh new look and awesome features, it is called as Superbar by many. Stay tuned for the ultimate Windows 7 focus from. Over the next few weeks we will be adding many more focus items on Windows 7 including Touch, Windows 7 networking and media enhancements.
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