Thread: Control iTunes from the Windows 7 Taskbar

One of my preferred Windows 7 facilities is thumbnail previews, which show when you mouse above any running application in the taskbar.

Actually, every thumbnail has a slight red X in the upper-right place, meaning you can shut that program with no first having to exploit it.

iTunes takes this a tread further by adding up player controls. As you can make out in the screenshot beneath, the thumbnail sports three small icons: previous track, play/pause, along with next track.

These buttons work presently like the controls in iTunes suitable, but they save you from having to in fact switch to the program when you want to, say, skip to the next song or else for the moment pause the playback of the song.

Obviously, know-how users make out that you can put in an complete iTunes toolbar to the taskbar in together Windows 7 as well as Vista, but that just adds clutter. Here you get basic playback controls without overwhelming additional space. Nice!