Enable "superbar" in 6801

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Superbar definitely looks ten times better than the fat-text taskbar on the sides.

The Windows Logo screensaver has both the Windows 7 logo, and the Vista swoosh that should be dropped any time soon :p

edit: Try copying a file. The progress bar animation's there :D

post-99705-1225682161.png

After doing this unlock you'll also uncover a fade transition for the programs list and search results in the Start Menu.

ahhhaa...there is more of a delay in the windows logo screensaver for it to show the logo..unlike vista...anyone thing the text under the logo is uncentered?

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Quillz

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superbar looks a helluva lot better docked on the right or left side than the regular bar does imo...whatda you guys think?

is it me or is the windows logo missing from the windows logo screensaver in this build?

Screenshot of it on the sides?

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George P Global Moderator

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one thing i have noticed is that it seems like when you hover over the thumbnails that the image displayed is static..ie... the ie8 download window does not update

It might be like that in this early pre-beta. But it should update in newer builds I'd say.

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one thing i have noticed is that it seems like when you hover over the thumbnails that the image displayed is static..ie... the ie8 download window does not update

are you sure it doesnt look that way open say and msn window with a moving display pic or even this page with signature that is moving you see it changing

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Calum Veteran

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When I left-click the IE icon on superbar, it shows the thumbnails of each tabs instead of jumping to IE itself.

hope it will change in future release.

Do you mean you hope it changes in future builds just for web browsers? I hope that's what you mean, because it makes sense for the left-click to open the available thumbnails (your tasks) in other programs :D

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Do you mean you hope it changes in future builds just for web browsers? I hope that's what you mean, because it makes sense for the left-click to open the available thumbnails (your tasks) in other programs :D

Right now the thumbnails for IE are bugged.

Because IE now runs in multiple processes it displays thumbnails for each tab. Problem is, if an IE window is already on top and you attempt to switch to another IE thumbnail, it won't work. But if there are no IE windows on top, then any IE thumbnail selected will make it switch to the appropriate IE tab.

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Ambroos

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I have one problem. Taskbar looks like this. And the preview doesn't work when i put mouse over it.

https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?act=...t&id=208468

That's cause you're not running Aero. Without Aero you can't get thumbnails.

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I have one problem. Taskbar looks like this. And the preview doesn't work when i put mouse over it.

https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?act=...t&id=208468

do you have an aero capable video card? on my system when i first logged in aero was fine. but after making additional user accounts i had the same problem - dwm/aero not working at all.

from control panel i went to solution center or troubleshooting.. and theres list of common issue that windows can attempt to fix. under Display there is "Aero not working" or something like that. it ran through a series of tests and eventually fixed the issue.

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Do you mean you hope it changes in future builds just for web browsers? I hope that's what you mean, because it makes sense for the left-click to open the available thumbnails (your tasks) in other programs :D

yea, that's exactly what I'm saying. :D

now I have to Click-Wait the thumbnails-Click when switching back to IE from MSWord. It bothers me.

I have to disable the Botton grouping now.

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do you have an aero capable video card? on my system when i first logged in aero was fine. but after making additional user accounts i had the same problem - dwm/aero not working at all.

from control panel i went to solution center or troubleshooting.. and theres list of common issue that windows can attempt to fix. under Display there is "Aero not working" or something like that. it ran through a series of tests and eventually fixed the issue.

Now i figured that i don't (intel 915GM). Just wanted to test the taskbar on my old laptop, but stil the OS runs good on 512MB.

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PGHammer

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Rafael of withinwindows just posted a way to enable the new "superbar" in build 6801.

http://www.withinwindows.com/

I'm going to try it out a bit later and see if it works.

edit: Aero peek doesn't seem to work, but this trick does work.

Make sure your in the directory c:\windows when executing the commands or you may hit a .net error

If you have a space in your name, be sure to wrap it in quotes in the command line

And we have SuperBar.....

Dayum...if you have multiple tabs open in IE, it shows thumbnails of *each tab* (the regular Taskbar only shows a thumbnail of the active tab).

By the by, what's *Aero Peek*?

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sharp65

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And we have SuperBar.....

Dayum...if you have multiple tabs open in IE, it shows thumbnails of *each tab* (the regular Taskbar only shows a thumbnail of the active tab).

By the by, what's *Aero Peek*?

It's basically a way to quickly see only a specific window. So If I have four different windows open I can hover over a specific one in the taskbar and the rest turn to solid glass. This also works with tabs in the IE. It's easy to understand from watching the demonstration from the keynote.

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PGHammer

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When I left-click the IE icon on superbar, it shows the thumbnails of each tabs instead of jumping to IE itself.

hope it will change in future release.

Quite honestly, I hope it doesn't change. It gives me a way to choose among all my open tabs without having to go back to IE (right-clicking on a highlighted tab preview goes to that tab). Very slick (and definitely not in Vista). Right now, I have two IE tabs, MP12, Explorer, and the command prompt on the SuperBar.

Right-click any preview (even a tab) and you're at that window. However, I *do* want the SuperBar to be a TaskBar regular option (as opposed to being locked down as it is in 6801).

Also, apparently the SuperBar is *not* a resource pig, either. It requires Aero; however, most discrete-graphics (and quite a number of integrated-graphics) solutions support Aero these days (on the integrated-graphics side, the commonplace Intel GMA x3100 and nForce 630i, as well as AMD's 780G, all support Aero today; on the discrete-graphics side, you have to go back to AMD's 9500 series and nVidia's GeForce 4 to find a graphics card that *doesn't* support Aero). (I'm running it on a P4 2.6 Northwood-C with 2 GB of RAM and a Radeon X1650PRO AGP card; not exactly a powerhouse even by Vista standards.)

I've been running 6801 in daily-use mode since Saturday, and, except for some quirks with virtual-drive programs (expected at this stage), it's certainly usable as it is.

The SuperBar is definitely a keeper.

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DigitalE

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I have one problem. Taskbar looks like this. And the preview doesn't work when i put mouse over it.

https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?act=...t&id=208468

That's cause you're not running Aero. Without Aero you can't get thumbnails.

Yeah. You're not going to get Aero Glass in a virtual machine.

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PGHammer

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Point is to make IE only take one window, and if you have one windows anyway, why not also immediately choose the tab you go to?

Exactly. With Vista, you can go only to the *current* IE tab; with the superbar, you can go to any tab you have open (or, if you have Yahoo Messenger 9 running, any conversation you have open, as YM 9 doesn't support tabs).

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