xp powertoys

Alt+Tab before

For those of you who live their working life on a Windows XP box then you might want to check out some of the Windows XP power toys that Microsoft has to offer. I guess there are about a dozen of them that you can install. The two that I installed were the Alt-Tab Replacement and the Open Command Window Here Powertoys.

You can see the before and after screen shots of the alt+tab replacement to the right. The pictures are not to scale so the after picture is much more readable in real life. Also, the picture at the top looks really bad because I had to take a picture of it because I could not figure out how to do a alt+prit screen to take snap shot. The only problem I see with the alt tab replacement is that when a window is minimized it does not show as a screen shot of the image. So, pretty much you have to get out of the habit of hitting the windows+d or windows+m keys if you use them

Alt+Tab after

The Open Command Window Here power toy is nice because you can just right click on a folder and select the Open Command Window Here option it will set the command line to that folder. No more cd c:\temp\blah\blah. Very nice.