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Get the Windows 7 Taskbar in Windows XP

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The Windows 7 taskbar is pretty cool and functional, with large icons to help you switch between several programs quickly. Guess what? Now, you can get a taste of the Windows 7 taskbar in Windows XP with the help of a program called ViGlance.

Windows 7 Taskbar for Windows XP

ViGlance makes Windows XP’s taskbar look like Windows 7. With 48×48 icon support, PNG Skins, transparency and transitional effects, this tool does emulate Windows 7′s taskbar in XP to a huge extent. Vista editions are coming, but you can download it for XP right away from here.

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Written by Shankar Ganesh

April 26th, 2009 at 2:35 pm

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  • http://harmlessgeek.com Santosh

    Just tried it out. It’s lovely. Thanks Shankar!

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  • http://www.callingallgeeks.org Vaibhav Kanwal

    Great!
    I really liked this tip.
    Giving you a trackback. :-)

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  • EdwardAtlus

    Not working properly for me – some buttons are large than others, and buttons overlap, partially hiding some buttons. Not sure why these problems are occurring.

    Ed

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  • http://example.com Nate1994

    on Start up it doesn’t show buttons when i open things.

  • Hunab Ku

    Be patient ViGlance run multi times and finaly show buttons pid on taskbar.

    Sorry for my bad english.

    Hunab Ku.

  • gelogs

    thank you so much for my new taskbar!

  • JDH

    i tried this and was pretty surprised, it’s not too bad, although it had some bugs, after having a taste of 7 i just went out and bought it.

  • http://guidetowindows.blogspot.com/ Geoffrey

    Nice tip. Worked great on my Vio laptop. Going to try it on my kids eMachine.

  • mark

    instead of that you can have the look of windows 7 and still have the windows xp we all know and love with windowsXlive’s seven transformation pack

  • http://www.google.com.ar Andres

    THANKS SO MUCH! I WAS LOOKING IT FOR MORE THAN 2 HOURS I REALLY APRECIATE WHAT U HAVE POSTED :D

  • Andrey

    I hate to brake it to you mac but doesn’t look squat like windows 7 taksbar it’ more like vista taskbar.

  • http://www.yahoo.in Ripon khan

    I want this software.thanks

  • Joe

    The problem with XP is that it has annoyances that need to be fixed, but MS has wrongfully and maliciously abandoned it. I think you’ll find that most people who want their computers to look like Vista or 7 will just go get Vista or 7 and install it. We want the technical advantages WITHOUT the different look. Does this program you’re shilling solve the problem of tooltips appearing behind the Taskbar? Does it solve the problem of some tray icons not returning when Explorer is restarted? Does it allow you to ‘disable’ hyper-annoying apps like Pidgin that abuse the taskbar flashing? I bet the answer is no, no, no – it’s just supposed to look pretty. Tell us something useful and we might download it! But this page just looks like an advertisement for useless eye candy as it stands now. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that big hinkin’ icons without any identifying text is a major step BACKWARDS from XP. Don’t give me less info than ever before and call it a feature!

  • cyp

    how do u make it see through???????????

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    pleas

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  • http://www.mandakh.net Mandakh

    Tnx buddy nice :)

  • junaid

    its really cool

  • Hello

    dosn’t work!!!

  • Bart

    Doesn’t work for me either…

  • mo

    if i do it can i take it off

  • Apaaajaboleh_20

    I WANNA DOWNLOAD IT !!!

  • Haloguyhalo

    nice zlob trojan

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1047533499 MehtAb Towheed

    it’s a virus

  • Haggai Antonio

    @mehtAd Toweheed: its probably a false positive

  • Viela

    waw cool

  • Matthewlambino11

    we! d nga!

  • Yatini

    yeah it works.. but wat i want is permanent.. no need to make viglance run on startup. duh! XD

  • Ishwor

    basketball

  • Rahul

    Very Much it’s like win7 thanks a lot