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Monday, 30 December 2002 |
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There are many concurrent windows open at my Win98 PC.
With the task bar I quickly swap to another application.
I like that task bar.
It is a major improvement, ever since Win95 compared to the Alt-tab function.
So far so good.
It gets a bit more complicated when there are many windows open at the same time. The task bar gets too crowded, reducing overview. It takes more effort to find a specific application window. Several application try their best to limit the number of task bar options. They administer their own windows, in their own task bar. Task bar in Opera![]() The Opera web browser (opera.com) offers the option of an own task bar (.../opera/v6). That takes a bit of extra screen space, but only when Opera is the active application. The number of options in the Windows task bar remains OK, handy to quickly switch to other applications. Tabs in TextPad![]() TextPad has a similar option, albeit with tabs instead of a task bar. CombinationIt is tempting to combine the two kind of tabs.Nice try. The Windows XP task bar implements such a combination. And see: the obvious idea is not handy at all.
Alt-tabTo me it is too tricky to swap windows this way. I simply stopped using the XP task bar. It annoys me so much that I fallback to the Alt-tab method. At least that is predictable and less troublesome.When possible I even ignore XP and change back to an old computer using Win98. I wish there was a recycling fee on software components. How I'd love to swap the new XP task bar for a Win98 version. |
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