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- Price: Free
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- Date added: October 12, 2005
- Total Downloads: 14,296
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 6 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
This application offers you a number of additional options as an enhancement to the traditional Alt Tab hot key. When you hit Alt Tab, Alt-Tab Thingy's visually appealing panel appears with a host of options for managing all your open windows. Each opened application is represented by an applicable icon, and you can scroll through them to see a small preview of that particular program using your mouse wheel. You can enlist Alt-Tab Thingy's system-tray icon to show program settings or the opened applications list when double-clicked. You can configure it to automatically close or minimize windows that haven't been used for a specified amount of time, render windows semitransparent, and chose from among boatloads of display resolutions. This free program is a great companion for anyone working with several opened applications at once.Publisher's description
From Stephen Clark :If you are not familiar with the Alt-Tab task switcher in Windows, it's a keyboard short-cut (hot-key) to enable fast switching between applications/windows. This feature has been in Windows since Windows 3.0 and is largely unchanged since Windows 95. Alt-Tab Thingy is a replacement to add brand new features to help you switch tasks faster and more efficiently than ever before.
Version 3.3 fixes a problem with applications that aren't responding.
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Version: Alt-Tab Thingy 3.3
"Great kit, lacking multiple monitor support though"
Pros: Allows the icon of the windows you want to swich to to be clicked (rather than having to hold alt and keep tabbing), useful window previews, quick and effective. Some useful features such as ghosting (keeping a window on-top and semi-transparent).
Cons: Sadly is of no real use to me as it only appears to work with applications living on the primary monitor. I use three monitors so my search for a something better than the basic alt-tab (wasn't keen on the microsoft powertoys update of it) ;-)
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Version: Alt-Tab Thingy 3.3
"Adds unthought-of & useful, time-saving functionality."
Pros: Alt-Tab-Thingy is fast, has a small memory footprint, is great for multiple open documents and has myriad setup options.
Cons: I can't think of anything.
Summary: I have used this for years and find it to be a time-saver I cannot work without.
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