High-res icon in Windows Vista alt-tab thumbnail preview?

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Published on 2010-01-17T16:08:17Z Indexed on 2010/03/09 8:51 UTC
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I have customized my alt-tab screen with the following:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\AltTab]
"OverlayIconPx"=dword:00000040
"MaxThumbSizePx"=dword:00000100
"MinThumbSizePcent"=dword:00000064

It works great: the thumbnail becomes 256 pixel wide and the icon at the corner of the thumbnail becomes 64x64 pixels. However, Windows doesn't load the high-res icons from the programs; instead, it uses the 16x16 pixel icon and scaled it up by nearest-neighbor. I'm sure the programs has high-res icons because I saw them with in "Extra Large Icon" view in Explorer.

So the question is: How can I force Windows to load the high-res icons for the alt-tab thumbnail preview? (Perhaps a registry key, or a .dll hack/injection?)

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