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The live visual previews in Vista show up in several really cool desktop features:
live taskbar thumbnails, Flip, and Flip 3D, which are used to switch between
open windows. The live taskbar thumbnails feature enables you to see a thumb-
nail version and name of any window that is currently minimized on the Vista
taskbar simply by positioning the mouse pointer over its icon. That way, you
can get tell whether a particular window icon on the taskbar contains the partic-
ular application or Vista window you want to restore to its previous position and
size on the Vista desktop.
live taskbar thumbnails, Flip, and Flip 3D, which are used to switch between
open windows. The live taskbar thumbnails feature enables you to see a thumb-
nail version and name of any window that is currently minimized on the Vista
taskbar simply by positioning the mouse pointer over its icon. That way, you
can get tell whether a particular window icon on the taskbar contains the partic-
ular application or Vista window you want to restore to its previous position and
size on the Vista desktop.
Note that the Flip feature is a more graphic version of a switching feature first
introduced in Windows XP (and still activated by pressing Alt+Tab). This feature
enables you to activate a particular open window from among those currently
minimized on the Windows taskbar by selecting its icon and window name in a
band that appears in the middle of the desktop. In the Vista version of the Flip
feature, however, rather than just a generic window icon, you see an actual live
thumbnail of the contents of the window along with its window name (see Figure
1-3). This live preview helps you immediately identify the window you want to
open on the desktop.
introduced in Windows XP (and still activated by pressing Alt+Tab). This feature
enables you to activate a particular open window from among those currently
minimized on the Windows taskbar by selecting its icon and window name in a
band that appears in the middle of the desktop. In the Vista version of the Flip
feature, however, rather than just a generic window icon, you see an actual live
thumbnail of the contents of the window along with its window name (see Figure
1-3). This live preview helps you immediately identify the window you want to
open on the desktop.
The Flip 3D offers an even faster visual method for activating an open window
among those you have open. It accomplishes this by showing a stack of live 3-D
representations for all the windows you have open in Vista (see Figure 1-4). You
can then quickly flip through this stack until the thumbnail of the window you
want to activate is displayed at the front of the stack.
among those you have open. It accomplishes this by showing a stack of live 3-D
representations for all the windows you have open in Vista (see Figure 1-4). You
can then quickly flip through this stack until the thumbnail of the window you
want to activate is displayed at the front of the stack.
See
“Flip and Flip 3D” later
in this part for details on how to use Flip and Flip 3D to select a window.
Visual previews also show up in windows that contain file folders when using
the Extra Large Icons viewing option. Figure 1-5 illustrates such a situation. Here,
you see the contents of a few of the folders inside an Excel Wrkbk folder on my
computer’s hard drive after selecting Extra Large Icons on the window’s Views
pop-up slider. When any size between Large Icons and Extra Large Icons are
selected, Vista actually shows a live preview of the first few documents within
that folder so that you see a thumbnail of an actual graphic image, if the folder
contains photos, and a worksheet, if it contains spreadsheets.
the Extra Large Icons viewing option. Figure 1-5 illustrates such a situation. Here,
you see the contents of a few of the folders inside an Excel Wrkbk folder on my
computer’s hard drive after selecting Extra Large Icons on the window’s Views
pop-up slider. When any size between Large Icons and Extra Large Icons are
selected, Vista actually shows a live preview of the first few documents within
that folder so that you see a thumbnail of an actual graphic image, if the folder
contains photos, and a worksheet, if it contains spreadsheets.
As you can begin to see from this brief overview, the Aero Glass interface in
Windows Vista offers you an extremely visual and highly dynamic environment
in which to work. All around, when coupled with the many less glitzy enhance-
ments that the Microsoft software stuck under the hood, Windows Vista makes
for a very satisfying user experience.
Windows Vista offers you an extremely visual and highly dynamic environment
in which to work. All around, when coupled with the many less glitzy enhance-
ments that the Microsoft software stuck under the hood, Windows Vista makes
for a very satisfying user experience.
Figure 1-3
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