Useful Alt+Tab Replacement : Power Toy from Microsoft

For those of you who use the Alt+Tab key combination to switch between openwindows on your desktop, I am sure you have encountered times when you cannotdistinguish one window from the other due to having more than one instance ofthe same program open.Microsoft became aware of this draw-back after releasing the XP operating systemand subsequently released a "Power Toy" to resolve this issue. The Power Toyresolves this issue by replacing the program icons with actual screenshots ofyour open windows. This way you can locate exactly which window you wish toswitch to, which is immensely useful when navigating between several SAP windowsat one time.Here are pictures of using the Alt+Tab key combination both pre- and post-installation of the Power Toy:(Embedded image moved to file: pic20556.jpg)(Embedded image moved to file: pic22795.jpg)As you can see in the first example above, it is impossible to differentiatebetween the IE instances and the SAP instances by looking at the icons. In thesubsequent example, the screenshot clearly differentiates the windows.Here are the instructions to install:-Copy URL to browser:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Install/2/WXP/EN-US/TaskswitchPowertoySetup.exe-
Choose "Run" from pop-up dialog box-Choose "Run" a second time, this will kick-off the installation of the PowerToy-Once you get the "Installation Complete" dialog, the toy is successfullyinstalled. No need to reboot your PC.