kevlar557 0 Report post Posted June 11, 2005 I was browsing through the microsoft website a couple of minutes ago, and I stumbled across the Power Toys. They are little add-ons to windows that make life a whole lot easier and more appealing to the eye. Some of the ones I downloaded is the desktop manager, taskswitch toy, UI tweaks, and some others. The desktop manager lets you manage multiple desktops with different things on each. It's kind of like how the linux desktop manager is. The Task Switch enables thumbnail previws when using the Alt-Tab keystroke. It will show the preview of the program you are swithcing to in a small window, which is very helpful when you have multiple instinces of the same program open at once. There are about 8 more, but I don't know exactly what they are. You can find them here. Power Toys Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jedipi 0 Report post Posted June 11, 2005 The first release of Microsoft Power Toys in on the year windows 98?? or windows 95?? I Could not remember. It is not new. :(anyway, I do love to use this handy toys. I install them once the windows was setup. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JimBeam1405241475 0 Report post Posted June 11, 2005 Yeah these things have been around for ages now.. but nonetheless I'm sure a lot of people don't about them otherwise so this will be helpful to them. I personally don't bother with any of them, I once installed one and it didn't work (can't remember which one it was) so I just gave up on them and never really gave them another chance.Still, it's a good post and I do know of a lot of people that do use the PowerToys... so if you haven't already tried them out, they're worth looking at. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jpod999 0 Report post Posted June 11, 2005 You mean Microsoft is trying to make XP a good operating system? WOW!! I can't believe it! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jerre 0 Report post Posted June 11, 2005 one of them makes a slideshow with the images you wish and after that you can upload a the slideshow to your document and you have got him on your site Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Slngz 0 Report post Posted June 11, 2005 hey wot u got against XP lol - i think its superior to the other OS's2000pro wasnt bad but it still threw me a load of errors when i was doing stuff that xp wouldnt Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PC Astray 0 Report post Posted June 11, 2005 When I first saw Microsoft Powertoys last September...I thought they were really some tools that can really make XP more "powerpacked". From what I know now, it's merely a few tweaks with Tweak UI that you can find in system utilities programs like TuneUp Utilities 2004 which you can get for free and so on. The only useful tool I found there was the HTML Slideshow. If you really want to make XP more "powerpacked", get some programs by Stardock to change the visual stules and user interface and a couple of system utilities to optimize your system for maximium performance. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
