Missing Vista Ultimate component

[vetteguy]

Back in one of the beta releases there was a feature that let you show all of your open windows in a large thumbnail-type view, but they were still active. I'm not talking about Flip3d, and I don't mean the standard Alt+Tab, but it was a distinctive interface. When I installed the retail version of Ultimate, it wasn't anywhere to be found. A friend says his installation of Ultimate has it, however, and he says that somewhere he saw it referred to as "InstaView". A quick search shows nothing by that name. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?

 

[BBowermaster]

Maybe you are thinking of Instant Viewer, which is a feature of Intellipoint?
Edit: http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouseandkeyboard/features/instantviewer.mspx

 

[vetteguy]

I guess...although that's still not what was in the beta that I had. Thanks.

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: vetteguy
I guess...although that's still not what was in the beta that I had. Thanks.

It must have been an early beta. I don't remember seeing that in even Beta 2.

 

[Extelleron]

Could this be what you're talking about?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Vista_Flip_2d.png

 

[BBowermaster]

Originally posted by: Extelleron
Could this be what you're talking about?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Vista_Flip_2d.png

That's the standard alt tab, which he said:

Originally posted by: vetteguy
I'm not talking about Flip3d, and I don't mean the standard Alt+Tab, but it was a distinctive interface.

 

[vetteguy]

Originally posted by: Extelleron
Could this be what you're talking about?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Vista_Flip_2d.png

No, this was definitely a whole-screen interface that showed thumbnails. I know I'm not crazy, I'm tempted to re-load the beta just to see what it was called. 🙂

 

[Aberforth]

Live Thumbnails? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Livethumbnails.png

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: vetteguy

Originally posted by: Extelleron
Could this be what you're talking about?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Vista_Flip_2d.png

No, this was definitely a whole-screen interface that showed thumbnails. I know I'm not crazy, I'm tempted to re-load the beta just to see what it was called. 🙂

Are you sure you're not just confusing that with an IE feature that does the same thing?

 

[vetteguy]

Originally posted by: ViRGE

Originally posted by: vetteguy

Originally posted by: Extelleron
Could this be what you're talking about?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Vista_Flip_2d.png

No, this was definitely a whole-screen interface that showed thumbnails. I know I'm not crazy, I'm tempted to re-load the beta just to see what it was called. 🙂

Are you sure you're not just confusing that with an IE feature that does the same thing?

Pretty certain...I know it showed active desktop windows. Oh well.

 

[zig3695]

i dont get it. if your friend has it, why can you just ask him how to use it, and what its called?

 

[drag]

Sounds similar to Expose effect from OS X. Maybe they didn't include because it would look like a blatent rip off of Apple.

It'll scrink the windows and it will update them realtime.. so if you have the text scrolling or a video playing then it will play it in realtime.
Here is it in action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p6D0r7r_zo


I found this after a quick google around "vista expose effect"
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-...ac-osx-expose-clone-for-windows-vista/