Vista - Taskbar Icons

Hello Endless, and welcome to Vista Forums.

It's not the same, but you should be able to hover the mouse pointer over the icon to see the names for them.

Shawn

Yeah, you're right, it's not the same, but it does make it a bit better :P Takes like 1,5sec before the name pops up, though.. But there's a way to remove that delay, right?

Endless,

But of course there is.

You can adjust the mouse hover wait to open pop-up time to a lower amount of time before the name pops up.

Mouse Hover Time - Change

Ey Shawn ^^
I tried this(changed from 400 -> 30), and restarted, but somehow the time it takes is the same as before(The value in the registry is 30, though). Any ideas why?

It seems that it may only affect the time for the preview window pop up then.

Actually that one is exactly the same too :P (Or I wouldn't know, I just know it aint 30ms)

Strange. I'm not sure why it did not work for you. Did you restart the computer afterwards?

This W7 theme uses the same MinWidth tweak but he suggests setting it to 56. Anyway, it does work on Vista64 with Vistaglazz.

Windows 7 Vista Style FINAL - Neowin Forums

It didn't work for me the first time. When I double-clicked the theme I got "is not a valid theme" and the scheme changed but I got no transparency. The second time around it worked though. If you get that error try again. (btw the wallpaper used in the theme makes it look like the start menu is not transparent but if you use a wallpaper with contrasting colors you'll see it.)

edit: hmm, using the -255 MinWidth tweak I can get the effect using Vista Diamond Final, which I like a bit better. Only glitch in 64 bit is you have a black line down the center of the blue progress bar and the shifting progress bar thingie looks a bit weird. But it has nicer scrollbars imho.

btw I took the text off my home made toolbar and used custom icons for the folders so I don't have to depend on mouse hover to figure out the categories. Makes the toolbar very compact using small icons too.

Here's a screen shot(better than using start menu for nearly everything afaic)

Nice.