Minimize Windows to Thumbnails

Ryan at CyberNotes by CyberNet gives us some tips on how to minimize Windows to thumbnails:

I hang out over in the Donation Coder forum from time to time because there are a lot of people over there who have discovered some extremely useful apps. One example of this just happened a few weeks ago when Nighted, a member of the forum, pointed out a great freeware utility called ThumbWin (Google Translation to English).

Seeing that all of the screenshots were in Japanese, I decided to try the program out myself so that I could fully understand what it was capable of doing. I was rather impressed after I got it installed (English is the default language of the program), and it took me no time at all to get the gist of the program. With it, anytime a window is minimized there is a thumbnail generated for it on your desktop…

Frankly, I think this is an unnecessary solution to a nonexistent problem, especially given the availability of an expandable, auto-hiding quicklaunch bar, but if you have more real estate than you know what to do with and love gadgets cluttering up your desktop…