14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft has introduced yet another feature in Windows Vista, making the upcoming operating system even more attractive. Windows Vista Technical Evangelist, Tim Sneath and Windows Vista Magazine author Jon Hicks have revealed in to separate blog entries the Quick Zoom option. Available both on Vista's Desktop and in the Explorer, the extra feature can be accessed by pressing the Ctrl key in combination with the mouse's scrollwheel. With ?Ctrl+mousewheel, you can go from the regular 48x48 icons to full 256x256 photographic-quality renditions. For those of you who have a desktop filled with documents and shortcuts, you can of course also use this feature to cram even more on your screen so that you never have to create a folder again,? wrote Sneath.
?The guys developing the interface of Vista have told me several times that one of the more important things they thought about when designing the Vista interface was screen resolution. Displays are getting bigger and resolution is going up, and on Windows XP that's a problem: a high-res desktop leaves the icons tiny and hard to read,? explained Hicks revealing the same combination of Ctrl + mousewheel to blow up the icon?s resolution.
In Windows Explorer, images and documents can offer a preview via the Quick Zoom, without having to open the respective files.