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Task switching in Windows Vista

The first thing I noticed with the new Alt-Tab (Windows Flip now, I guess) was that you can now use the mouse pointer to select the window! This small feature will undoubtedly reduce the fatigue I get in my left hand from constant alt-tabbing. :-D

And best of all, the thumbnails are live and will actually show active operations, such as a download in progress.
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I think the "live" portion of the thumbnails is only included for the non-minimized programs. Programs that are minimized have non-live thumbnails. Maybe in the next release they will include live thumbnails for all programs, minimized or not; similar to the behavior of Alt-tab's Win3.x-95 era.

Thanks, I was looking for the shortcut to do the 3-D flip deally flop.