VistaSwitcher is a task management utility for Windows OS. Once installed, it replaces the default Windows Alt-Tab dialog with a nice box that shows a list of all running tasks, with their names and preview snapshots, and enables the user to take actions on them using the mouse and keyboard shortcuts. With just one click, you can switch tasks, minimize, maximize, restore the main window, or close the process.
Once installed, simply press Alt+Tab, and you’ll see a straightforward list of running applications, complete with icons. No need for repeated Alt+Tabbing, here: just hover the mouse cursor over the one you require, or use the arrow keys to select it, and that app will be switched to the foreground immediately. If you’re running multiple instances of a program and can’t tell which is which, then that isn’t a problem. VistaSwitcher displays a preview of each task window, so in most cases you’ll be able to pick out the one you need at a glance.
The VistaSwitcher console additionally gives you access to the standard Windows options for each application: miminise, maximise, restore, close, cascade and so on. And you can select multiple windows and apply the same action to each, so perhaps close several applications all at once. And the program also supports a useful new keyboard shortcut, in Alt + `. Press this and you’ll switch between open windows of the same application: all your Word documents, Internet Explorer windows, whatever it might be. It’s a real time-saver.
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