Toggle Program Windows with Switcher
Posted on September 7, 2010 at 6:11 am
As an excellent replacement to Vista’s Flip and Flip 3D, Switcher offers more than just toggling different program windows. It’s a very handy program that can switch windows into three different views: tile, dock, and grid.
It’s great for PCs with two or more monitors. You can also customize the appearance of its stacks, window-previews, and animations to suit your personality.
Moreover, you can assign several keyboard shortcuts or hotkeys to each Switcher function. This way, if you want to switch to another window, you can just press a keyboard combination instead of using your mouse.
Switcher will not devour your taskbar as this program can be placed on your system tray for quick-access. It’s totally free, lightweight, and will only consume approximately 11mb of your computer’s memory.
You can download this program at http://www.insentient.net.
Click Save File to start the download.
When the download is complete, launch the installer.
In the Security Warning page, press the Run button.
Follow all Setup Wizard’s installation procedures.
Click Finish when the installation is complete.
To run the program, go to C:\Program Files\Switcher (its default setup location) and open Switcher.exe.
This is the application’s primary interface.
Switcher has three different view types, namely Tile, Dock, and Grid. The default view is Tile.
You can change the spot of where you want the edge of screen to dock windows.
You can also adjust the behavior of the docked windows.
Switcher’s left sidebar has all the features and functions of the program. Click one to see a more detailed command options.
To put the software to your system tray, just hit the Hide button on the main interface.
The program’s icon will be placed on the tray for quick access of its tools.
There are two ways to activate the “switch”. The first option is by right-clicking the software’s tray icon and pressing Switch.
The second method is through a keyboard shortcut. The default hotkey is “Windows Key + CAPS LOCK”. You can change this hotkey anytime through the Shortcuts left sidebar command.
These are the switched windows in Tile view. You can mouse-hover and click each window. This way, you can navigate, find, and select the window you want without using the mouse.
This is the Dock view.
And this is the Grid.
Switcher works just like the ALT + Tab and the Windows Key + Tab commands. The major differences are: you can completely personalize the toggle look and choose the view type in Switcher.
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