Recreating lost Win95 alpha-version features
Wrapping text in taskbar buttons; docked auto-hide Explorer bands
Friday, February 25, 2005 by ksb | Discussion: WindowBlinds
Two features of the last alpha version of Windows 95 were lost in the first beta and I've never seen them offered in other programs. Is there a way to do these things in WB or other tools?
1. "Tiles" for running applications: There wasn't yet a taskbar in W95a2 so minimized tasks showed at the bottom on the screen in a large "tile" that looked like a double-height button showing the 32x32 icon for the application and up to two lines of text showing the window caption. I don't care about having the "tiles" located in the taskbar, but I'd love to have the larger icon and the text wrap. Can this be done?
2. Docked Explorer bands: If one dragged a folder to the edge of the screen in W95a2, it became a docked Explorer band, but it worked exactly like an undocked window whereas now it becomes toolbar. As a regular Explorer window I could move the icons around, choose how to display them (small icons, thumbnails, etc), and drag and drop. Can this be done with any tools?
Thanks,
Ken
1. "Tiles" for running applications: There wasn't yet a taskbar in W95a2 so minimized tasks showed at the bottom on the screen in a large "tile" that looked like a double-height button showing the 32x32 icon for the application and up to two lines of text showing the window caption. I don't care about having the "tiles" located in the taskbar, but I'd love to have the larger icon and the text wrap. Can this be done?
2. Docked Explorer bands: If one dragged a folder to the edge of the screen in W95a2, it became a docked Explorer band, but it worked exactly like an undocked window whereas now it becomes toolbar. As a regular Explorer window I could move the icons around, choose how to display them (small icons, thumbnails, etc), and drag and drop. Can this be done with any tools?
Thanks,
Ken
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