Microsoft power toys

I’ve been playing with Microsoft power toys lately, like ClearType. There’s some great stuff available.

I love Alt-Tab, but when you have several Word or Firefox windows open, it’s hopeless trying to guess which one is the one you’re after. Fortunately, Microsoft offers a solution with the Alt-Tab power toy (download link here).

Tweak lets you change systems settings you didn’t know you could. Remember when it was your choice whether or not to let applications jump up overtop of the ones you’re working in whenever they deemed appropriate? It can be your choice again.

And Magnifier adds the ability to use a little slice of your task bar as a magnification pane. Hover your mouse over whatever you want to magnify, and look at the pane to see it. (To activate after installation, right click the taskbar, select Toolbars, and select Taskbar Magnifier. For me, it didn’t show up as an option the first few times I tried. You may need to reboot.)

[Found via LifeHacker.]