Enable All Windows 7 Taskbar Features For Winamp With Win7shell

Posted September 16, 2009 – 7:54 pm in: Freeware, Windows 7 Guides

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Winamp player is one of the best MP3 players available for Windows today. Each version of Winamp is coming up with loads of new features and improvements. The only feature that lacks in the present version of Winamp (v5.56 while writing this article) is that the Windows 7 taskbar integration.

If you have been using Winamp on Windows 7 RC or RTM, you might have noticed that it doesn’t support Windows 7 jump lists feature by default. Although many of you might not be using the jump lists feature, its great time saver once you get used it.

Win7shell is a small plug-in for Winamp that enables loads of Windows 7 taskbar feature in Winamp. The present version of Win7shell adds following features:

# Shows playback status as the Winamp taskbar background (just like explorer progress bar)

# Customizes the aero peek thumbnail with: Winamp logo, album art, customized info about the current media playing, and custom image

# Adds next, previous, stop, and play buttons to Aero Peek thumbnail

# Displays recently played files in jump list

You can get all the above features just by downloading and installing Win7shell plug-in on Winamp. All the above mentioned features will be automatically enabled post the Win7shell installation.

Download Win7shell

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