A friend had downloaded the free version of ObjectDock on his vista laptop, and this is his screenshot of his Dock Contents tab :

as can be clearly seen there is an option to always show windows as thumbnails...
this does not appear on my options, either with the free or the paid for version. and yes, as stated before, i am running vista too.
i have raised this with support..this is their answer
Hi,
No the vista thumbnails are not currently part of ObjectDock. However I will forward this to our developers as a feature request. Thank you for your input!
Cheers,
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Travis G
Stardock Corporation
Technical Advisor
i pointed out, as in the post above, the following from the ObjectDock website :
* In Vista, all minimized windows will show up as a live mini-thumbnail in the ObjectDock taskbar! Optionally you can have all windows, minimized or not, show up as thumbnails. Note: this feature is only
* available for zooming docks, it does not support tabbed docks.
and i am still waiting for an answer...
i have tried completely uninstallinjg all Stardock products, re-installing from Stardock Central, and still no luck....does anyone have any idea,
thanks