With SBar Taskbar Replacement for Windows 7 Taskbar Features in XP or Vista
If you are one of those who not yet ready to upgrade Windows XP or Vista to Windows 7 but want to enjoy some Windows 7 features like Windows 7 Taskbar. Then, you can get these features in your Windows with SBar Taskbar Replacement. The SBar Taskbar is a Windows taskbar replacement software which emulates Windows 7 Taskbar and adds some new functionality present in Windows 7 to Windows XP and Vista. The notable features in Windows 7 taskbar includes live preview of opened windows, common tasks, jump list and etc.

Sbar Taskbar Replacement includes the following features:
- Grouping taskbar buttons in the way Windows 7 do it.
- Thumbnail previews for all opened windows (static in XP but live in Vista).
- Jump lists with pin support.
- Additional tasks in jump lists.
- Pin support to taskbar (experimental).
- Support to Skype 4.x and Firefox 3.x.
The Sbar Taskbar is available as free to download from here. Other alternative for Windows 7 Taskbar alike replacement is ViGlance.
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October 25th, 2009 02:59
Viglance is good, sbar gives lots of error and do not work fastly viglance next version will have the same windows 7 like jump list and live preview, no can tell that it is windows vista or xp
August 4th, 2009 17:41
DO NOT USE THIS PROGRAM IN VISTA! This will alter your taskbar size and you will NOT be able to restore it to normal even after uninstall. Save yourself the trouble and just stay away from it!
August 1st, 2009 18:43
Too bad, doesn’t support Vista x64.
August 1st, 2009 15:54
I think this is developed more for Vista than for XP. Buggy as hell for me. ViGlance while not having some of the features of SBar is far more stable and it works properly
August 1st, 2009 14:40
I want this but given the issues with it not working as reported below and the website saying this is still in beta with many bugs makes it not very appealing, Because I work from home and can’t afford my system becoming unstable/crashing.
MDL Please Repost this, when it is more stable.
August 1st, 2009 11:07
I think there is a bug in this program. My XP machine shows a fatal error after installing it?
August 1st, 2009 02:20
[...] SBar Taskbar Replacement also does the similar job to have Windows XP and Vista some Windows 7 Taskbar functionality. [...]