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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows XP/Vista
- Date added: May 09, 2008
- Total Downloads: 24,141
- Downloads last week: 110
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 11 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Looking for an Expose emulator to port that cool app-switching feature from the Mac to Windows? DExposE2 is probably about as close as you can get to a direct copy, giving both XP and Vista three choices for jumping between open programs.
Using the F9 key, you'll be able to minimize your apps to fit on the screen, then choose one to bring to the front by hitting Tab or left-clicking your mouse. F10 highlights only the active windows belonging to the application currently running in the foreground. F11 reveals the desktop by shunting all active windows off to the right side of your screen, visible only as a thin and unidentifiable bar.
DExposE2 lets you set up other hot keys or move your mouse to the corner of the screen to activate, and there's also a Windows Taskbar icon you can use to access it's features--but the hot keys are more than adequate. Other customizations include setting a background image, determining the behavior of previously minimized windows, and customizing program labels. Three levels of graphical quality should allow those with less RAM to scale the program to their needs. Although some crashes have been reported, DExposE2 worked flawlessly for us.
Publisher's description
From Devrexter :If you like the switching programs visually DExposE2 is a great option. Modeled after Expose in Mac OS X, DExposE2 lets you use the F9, F10, and F11 keys to toggle different views of running programs. F9 minimizes all application windows to fit on your screen. F10 minimizes all windows of a single program to fit on your screen. F11 makes all windows move out of the way to give you access to the desktop. You have several options for activating DExposE2 with hot-keys, mousing to the corner of your screen, or the function keys. There are several more options to configure in the preferences.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 3.4 stars out of 11 votes
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Version: DExposE2 1.0
"a good toy but has some crashes"
Pros: it's good for adding a new feature to your OS
Cons: if you are a gamer I don't recommend it to you because especially in WarCraft it disables some keys such as F10 it's WarCraft's menu key but also one of this app's short cuts and while playing the game you can't use the F10 key neither for WarCraft nor for DExposE2...
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: DExposE2 1.0
"Does What it says and can be useful"
Pros: I like that its not only a very small program to download but also takes up very little system resources. I'm running vista on around 500 mb of RAM and yet this has not slowed anything. I haven't looked real hard yet but I don't believe it comes bundled with any malware.
Does exactly what it claims. Another great way to switch between apps and lower everything so I can get at the desktop easy.
Cons: The only complaint is that when you hit the F11 key to move everything out of your way to get at the desktop (can be very useful) it doesn't minimize it but rather shove everything off screen so you can just barely see the windows on the right of the screen. No Big Deal really but it would be a little nicer to just minimize them. (Hit the button again and everything goes right back to where it was).
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Version: DExposE2 1.0
"Does exactly what it says, but wish it had a "hot" corner"
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Version: DExposE2 1.0
Pros: good if you have a load of programs running at the same time
Cons: don't really see why I would want it
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Version: DExposE2 1.0
Pros: Nothing!
Cons: Kaspersky found this when I tried to install it:
adware not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.EShoper.ba
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