The problem is: using this PowerToy is actually worse than sticking with the standard Windows XP ALT+TAB behavior. The idea is that you're given more information about each window at no cost-thus far, this sounds nice! Here's a screenshot of the Powertoy in action: Please excuse me while I rip on your creation.Īs a short introduction: this PowerToy replaces the default ALT+TAB window with a larger window that shows screenshots of each of your windows. To be fair to the original authors: I understand this was probably built off-hours as a labor of love, and I do understand a lot of work went into building this particular toy. For an example, I'll pick on the Windows XP PowerToys ALT+TAB Replacement tool. Getting to a point I'd like to make: not all productivity tools help. Once you've returned, we'll continue, okay? Just take your time. I'll leave you some time alone to grieve. I know this is incredibly outrageous, but it turns out: FoxIt PDF Reader is, in fact, not all gravy. This is something I've rarely (if ever) seen covered elsewhere: I'm here to report that, contrary to all the positive buzz, those oddball third-party products allegedly ten times better/faster/stronger than the originals do have flaws. It's true-I've crashed FoxIt attempting to load two entirely different documents coming from separate sources. FoxIt does not attempt sneak in totally unrelated software in the guise of 'Acrobat updates' like Adobe is now doing ('now' being ).īut, I'm here to tell you: it's not all gravy.You can install FoxIt reader faster than you can load a PDF document with Adobe it's that ridiculous. FoxIt is 1000% faster (and no, I'm not exaggerating-it's faster by a factor of ten).It's already better than Adobe's ever-ballooning product in several ways:

I'm using it now, and for the most part, it's fantastic. Sorry.īy now you've at least heard mention of an Acrobat Reader alternative named FoxIt. Yeah, I guess most of us aren't), you can't legally be using FoxIt. UPDATE GRAB BAG (): FoxIt has released v2.0, potentially fixing this bug! ALSO, FoxIt is not free for commercial use! So stop abusing the end user license agreement, you filthy pirate scum scumbag scum! Um, anyway, unless you're a big PDF user at home (and who isn't? Oh, I'm not.

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