Windows 7 was released to manufaturing by Microsoft on 22nd July 2009 and retail available by the end of October 2009. Microsoft introduced a new design for Windows 7 taskbar. If you do not plan to upgrade to Windows 7 and at the same time you want to have the nice Windows 7 taskbar on your Windows XP/Vista, you can use this small application to make Windows XP/Vista taskbar look like the Windows 7 taskbar.

ViGlance - Windows 7 SuperBar for XP is a small application that allows you to have a Windows 7 taskbar look on Windows XP and Vista. Using ViGlance enables you to get almost all of Windows 7 taskbar features such as pinning application shortcut to taskbar, reordering taskbar icons and window thumbnails. The start button will be replaced with Windows 7 Start Orb.

To install ViGlance, download ViGlance zip file and extract it to a new folder. Then, run 'ViGlance OneStep.exe'. ViGlance will run on your system tray. You can enable the option to automatically start ViGlance with Windows (1). 

ViGlance is a freeware and available for Windows XP and Vista.

[Download: ViGlance]