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Convert Your Windows XP/Vista ordinary taskbar into Windows 7 Superbar and Get AeroPeek in Windows XP & Vista
about Computing on 28/06/2009 - like it?

I’ve been trying out Windows 7 RC on my personal laptop for about 2 weeks now – and I’ve been very impressed with Windows 7 (I’ll leave my Windows 7 impressions for another blogpost). One of the best liked features about Windows 7, for me is AeroPeek. Essentially AeroPeek groups all similar Windows into one, and as you hover your mouse over it, It displays all windows open so that you can quickly switch over to it. The picture below will give a good idea of AeroPeek.

I’ve been trying to find a utility which would offer me a similar function for Windows XP, which not much success. Found a few apps but they just simulate the “Show Desktop” kind of a feature, till I came across this post at Lifehacker, that is.

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I tried it out – and the application – ViGlance is just fabulous. Just what I wanted. ViGlance emulates the Windows 7 superbar pretty much in an awesome manner. But wait in addition to the grouping of Windows, it also replaces the standard 16×16 icons to 48×48 icons and replaces the Start button with the Start button, with transparency effects to boot. The icing on the cake ? It doesn’t require helfty, screw-with-system-transformation packs, neither does it require installation – Yup its a portable app – and its only frikkin’ 239KB in size! Yeah – read that again.

The obligatory before and after pictures.

After installing ViGlance

Ofcourse, the ViGlance doesn’t have Jumplist feature – but I’m not so bothered about that as I don’t make use of it. I wanted AeroPeek, and I got it.
IMO, this is a must have app for Windows XP & Vista users, especially if you’re sorely missing out on AeroPeek while not on Windows 7.

Download it from here or from here(Direct download, My DropBox).

Do post your comments, or let me know if you use some other app for the same!

Tags: 7, AeroPeek, ViGlance, windows, Windows 7, Windows XP, XP

Any idea how to get this program to start automatically every time I boot into windows? Thing is, I have to arrange my quick launch manually every time I do. I have like 30 icons on my quick launch so it’s a pain doing it. Check this screen, you get the idea http://img38.imageshack.us/i/taskbar.png/

Lovingly written by | Balu | on 28/06/2009

Why not add that program to Startup menu ?

Lovingly written by Sathya on 28/06/2009

Ah why dint I think of that! Thanks, problem solved

Lovingly written by | Balu | on 29/06/2009

Or install Free Launch Bar instead of using the regular launch bar. More options.

Lovingly written by g on 01/07/2009