Small tools can lead to huge leaps in productivity. Let’s take our desktop. Should I call it screen real estate, because it’s just as precious. This is a time for multitasking, and when you have multiple windows open, every little inch counts and every inch lost adds up. One way to maximize space usage is to align each window with the edges of the screen. There’s usually some space on the sides that we don’t really use. The way to do it manually is to drag the corners of the application screen with the mouse and align it to the sides.
If you have plenty of time (and patience), go ahead. If not, try WindowPad, a desktop application for Windows. The ZIP download is only 283 KB and requires no installation.
WindowPad runs from the system tray and allows you to set custom layouts on the desktop. It cuts short the manual intensive mouse work by allowing you to use the Windows – Numpad key combination to quickly adjust windows to the sides of your screen.
Double click on the WindowPad Exe file. Applications run from the system tray. Open a window and use the Windows logo key along with the numbers in the numeric keypad as hotkeys to align the window to a specific side of the screen for a better view of all open windows. It’s easy to understand: NumPad+1, NumPad+3,NumPad+7, and NumPad+9 align any window to the bottom left, bottom right, top left, and top right of the screen. background (imagine numbers in a grid). The key combinations 2,3 and 8 arrange it in the middle part of the screen. Try it once and you’ll get the hang of it…it’s easy.
If you set up multiple monitors, WindowPad also allows you to move windows between monitors (Win + NumpadDot).
If you don’t mind getting your hands dirty, you can even open WindowPad.ini in a text editor and customize the hotkeys with other combinations. WindowPad also supports command line commands, but that’s for the really geeky among us. The Help file is available to anyone interested.
WindowPad is a small but useful application that you should have in your startup folder. I find it especially useful in multi-monitor setups. Although the program has not been updated for a while, it is still in use.
Try WindowPad and let us know if it makes a better desktop.
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