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Vista-style Task Switching on XP

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Coming very soon to a Windows XP desktop near you...

Posted at 2006-01-24 11:41 AM by Scott
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Tuesday, January 24, 2006 5:08:50 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Okay, I'll bite. I downloaded version 1.4 but don't get this behavior. Guess there's a new version coming with it? I don't see any announcements on the site.

Bil Simser

Tuesday, January 24, 2006 7:59:29 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Yikes, 46 MB of memory. Still, one of the better "exposeish" that I've seen.

domus.vita

Tuesday, January 24, 2006 9:39:48 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Bil: As Scott said, it's coming soon. It'll be announced when it's out.

doumus.vita: You can tweak the memory usage in the config dialog. Change the "Performance" option to "Slower (uses less memory)". You can find out how to do this at http://www.otakusoftware.com/topdesk/documentation/html/configuring_topdesk.html.

James Stewart

Thursday, January 26, 2006 7:31:51 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Suggestion, could you drop the transparency? Leave transparency for Vista since that is a native part of the OS.

Andre Da Costa

Sunday, February 05, 2006 3:17:02 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Andre - transparancy support is native to DirectX, not the "OS" and if your graphics card supports 3D hardware acceleration, it's as native as it's going to get.