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insanekiwi

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Switched to this from winplosion

http://www.entbloess.com/

Seems to be faster and allows you to interact with window controls while in expose mode. Also, it updates window contents while in expose mode, too. Cheaper than winplosion...

Window shading blue effect is there... allows you to use alt-tab as a key... etc etc.

ciaran

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i'm gonna try this too. thanks.

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I dunno...I have to disagree with those of you who say this is more of eye-candy than a helpful feature. When I'm using Apple OS X at work, I use expose a lot... I think that I'll end up using it a lot while I'm in Windows, too. It's simply better than Alt-Tab for a variety of reasons, mainly because you can see all of the windows and what you are doing in each.

It's pretty nifty. :)

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If you want a Linux-like virtual desktop implementation for Windows, try this PowerToy. Once you install it, you need to enable it by right-clicking your taskbar, selecting Toolbars, then selecting Desktop Manager. A toolbar with 5 buttons will appear in your taskbar. The first four switch to the designated desktop, while the 5th one displays a full-screen window showing each virtual desktop. You can click a desktop to select it. All the buttons have keyboard shortcuts, and you can assign different wallpaper to each desktop to help differentiate them.

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hmm... still a few bugs... i have a wallpaper which is bigger than my screen (i have it centred). When i display all windows using winplosion, the background shows the top left corner of my huge wallpaper and the the center as usual (just something ive noticed... nothing big)... and although the animations are smooth when showing all windows, after you click on a window, it looks wierd as it first minimises the window and then brings it back up? or something like that - anyway.. it looks a bit jitterry.... apart from that, its a cool idea... OSX Tiger will be shweet.

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I gave entbloess a try, and wow...I'm pretty impressed. There's one *huge* problem I've found with it that might make me hold out on buying it until the next version comes out (which is supposed to be sometime in November): the expose view will *not* show you minimized windows in full screen the way WinPLOSION can do (with the correct settings).

Frankly, I would like the expose action to show all windows, even the mimized ones...that would rock.

Either way, for $5.99, that's a pretty great deal!

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I gave entbloess a try, and wow...I'm pretty impressed.  There's one *huge* problem I've found with it that might make me hold out on buying it until the next version comes out (which is supposed to be sometime in November): the expose view will *not* show you minimized windows in full screen the way WinPLOSION can do (with the correct settings).

Frankly, I would like the expose action to show all windows, even the mimized ones...that would rock.

Either way, for $5.99, that's a pretty great deal!

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I'm pretty sure I read something about that on their forum, so they are aware that it's a problem. I bought my copy last night, it's so slick and I don't even need to learn keyboard commands since the default is alt+tab. :)

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Yah...the forum says the new version will fix the problem (that minimized windows don't show up in the expose effect). The new version is supposed to be released on November 14th...

Not bad. :) Only 15 days.

Someone said, though, in the Entbloess forum that there's a way to change this in the registry so that these minimized windows will indeed show up. I looked through the registry though and didn't see anything.

Anyone have any ideas?

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Wow... Entbloess is awesome... but there is a lot of room for improvement:

Taskbar/desktop background should be still visible,

minimised windows should show up,

the "tip" at the bottom should be removed,

the window selection tint/label animation should be much quicker,

the tint of selected windows shouldn't be there - it makes it look tacky.

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Yah...the forum says the new version will fix the problem (that minimized windows don't show up in the expose effect).  The new version is supposed to be released on November 14th...

Not bad.  :)  Only 15 days.

Someone said, though, in the Entbloess forum that there's a way to change this in the registry so that these minimized windows will indeed show up.  I looked through the registry though and didn't see anything.

Anyone have any ideas?

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Yeah. I reported the minimised window problem. Looks like he might fix it. There is a way to change the hover-over color in entbloess mode from the registry... Look in the .reg files in the Entbloess directory for a few more options than what you see in the options window...

Also, like YzDock it helps to run Winplosion/Entbloess in HIGH priority (start /HIGH program.exe) to take full advantage of their alt-tab replaceness...

ciaran

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Wow... Entbloess is awesome... but there is a lot of room for improvement:

Taskbar/desktop background should be still visible,

minimised windows should show up,

the "tip" at the bottom should be removed,

the window selection tint/label animation should be much quicker,

the tint of selected windows shouldn't be there - it makes it look tacky.

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I can still see my wallpaper, but the taskbar is gone to give more room to view the windows.

That's a good point about the tip.

It's very quick here on my p4 3.0, these types of programs take horsepower. There are options to tone down the quality to make it faster though, try playing with the settings.

The tint can be customized in the options but not removed (I think).

Try posting your concerns over on their forums, they seem receptive to suggestions.:)

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