Wishing that the new "Superbar" was available for the PDC build of Windows 7? What about for your trusty copy of Vista? Well it isn't available for Vista yet (I am sure someone will whip up someway of porting it over) but it is available to all users who have a copy of Windows 7 Build 6801.Rafael, the well known Ux theme patcher, from withinwindows.com, has uncovered how to bring this breakthrough feature available to anyone who is lucky enough to have Windows 7 build 6801. It does take some changing to the OS to enable this hidden feature but it is well worth it.
Windows 7's "Superbar" was demonstrated heavily at Microsoft's PDC. For more information and full demonstrations checkout our PDC section.
Its a taskbar and MS put super infront of it. Its totally revolutionary.... not!
Not complete:
- No aero peek
- Has the old jump list arrow instead of rightclicking
- Old startbutton
- No jump lists in start menu
- No window titles in the thumbnails
And personally I think thumbnails take too long to pop up to have a real use as window switcher.So they do show up fine in the default settings.
Makes it a little better, just the thumbnail delay kinda breaks the functionality for me. I like to switch windows really fast.
* No aero peek
* Has the old jump list arrow instead of rightclicking
* Old startbutton
* No jump lists in start menu
* No window titles in the thumbnails
And personally I think thumbnails take too long to pop up to have a real use as window switcher.
Are there pics comparing the two start buttons? I saw the PDC video but I couldn't see anything significant
* No aero peek
* Has the old jump list arrow instead of rightclicking
* Old startbutton
* No jump lists in start menu
* No window titles in the thumbnails
And personally I think thumbnails take too long to pop up to have a real use as window switcher.
Are there pics comparing the two start buttons? I saw the PDC video but I couldn't see anything significant
Still, it's far too early to make any reasonable judgment.
Also to those complaining that you like the old taskbar with text and stuff, there's an option for you to ungroup the task windows and unveil the text again.
Just for kicks (and to see if I could do it), I decided to clone some of the Superbar, using WPF.
Knowing this, I want 6801 even more (wish UT would hurry up).
That's one of the things I wish would die *LOL*
Phew, I am not a fan of the huge taskbars. And watching Windows7 demonstration videos, I actually dislike the taskbar (now Superbar) size. But knowing I can still have my normal height with the Orb stuck out, yay!
I am stunned at the stability that W7 6801 offers. My Vista runs fine since SP1 with just a few minor annoyances. I've been using Google SketchUp 3D modeling software on it for a couple days and it runs smoother than it does with Vista.
What about drivers? has it crashed on you more than Vista SP1?
wow your easy to win over.
I have installed 7 on my laptop with 1 gig RAM and the performance beats my previious installations of Vista and xp on the same computer
It is like Vista, in that, morons like you only notice/understand the visual changes. Win7, even as an alpha build, outperforms XP and Vista. And what promised features are being left out?
EDIT: does it still have the crappy network diagram thing instead of going to connect settings?
Last edited by offroadaaron on 04 Nov 2008 - 02:42
install the Realtek HD audio drivers and it works... ;-)
I did to no avail.
Runtime Error!
Program: C:\Windows\SysWOW64\DllHost.exe
This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusal way.
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