Interactive Live Thumbnails

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Perhaps it's too late for such a change, but wouldn't it be cool to have
interactive mini-windows? You hover over the taskbar and see a live preview
of the program. Well, what if you could interact with the window just by
right clicking on the mini-window? For example, you are chatting with a
friend on Live Messenger, and you have the chat window minimized in the
taskbar. Well, maybe you have a spreadsheet up and you don't want to have to
restore the window, so you hover over the window in the taskbar and the
thumbnail appears. Next you right click and are able to type in the window
just like you would if it were up on the screen! How cool would that be?
Then you would never have to open a window if you didn't want to. You could
do the same thing with installers. Or better yet, why not have all
installers run off of the side bar. It would show a little thumbnail of the
installer in the sidebar, and then (of course) be interactive. How cool
would that be? That would finally be a feature that everyone could benefit
from. The sidebar would also have a purpose then too. What does everyone
think?
 
Sounds good... Vista won't presently do that, but, have you noticed that the
previews are LIVE? If you have any kind of animation running, it still runs
in the preview. Your idea would be a step above that, however.
 
Perhaps it's too late for such a change, but wouldn't it be cool to have
interactive mini-windows? You hover over the taskbar and see a live
preview
of the program. Well, what if you could interact with the window just by
right clicking on the mini-window? For example, you are chatting with a
friend on Live Messenger, and you have the chat window minimized in the
taskbar. Well, maybe you have a spreadsheet up and you don't want to have
to
restore the window, so you hover over the window in the taskbar and the
thumbnail appears. Next you right click and are able to type in the
window
just like you would if it were up on the screen! How cool would that be?
Then you would never have to open a window if you didn't want to. You
could
do the same thing with installers. Or better yet, why not have all
installers run off of the side bar. It would show a little thumbnail of
the
installer in the sidebar, and then (of course) be interactive. How cool
would that be? That would finally be a feature that everyone could
benefit
from. The sidebar would also have a purpose then too. What does everyone
think?
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Post the suggestion to MS using the feedback icon. It certainly won't make
it into the RTM release. Whether that could be a feature in an SP or in the
next version OS who knows.
 
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