WindowSpace 1.0.6

WindowSpace 1.0.6 offers you a modern and powerful desktop enhancement utility that allows you to manipulate windows in many new ways.

Now, you can snap windows to the screen edges and other windows, move and resize them with keyboard shortcuts, maximize vertically or horizontally, pin a window on top of the others, hide from view, minimize to tray, and do other useful things. WindowSpace makes it a true delight for the computer user to manage multiple windows on a big screen, widescreen, or even on a multi-monitor system.

Snapping is a great way to avoid window overlapping that comes as a result of multitasking. Too many open windows make the desktop messy as they partly cover or completely block each other. It affects your performance as very soon youll find yourself hunting for windows, rather than doing the job. This is where WindowSpace can extend a helping hand. Just enable its snapping feature, and itll help you to avoid overlapping. Snap windows to each other or to the screen neatly, edge to edge, and stop playing hide-and-seek with them!

If you love your keyboard more than the mouse, youll be pleased to be able to move and resize windows using a set of keyboard shortcuts. Now, you do not have to reach for the mouse or sweep the finger across the touchpad to move a window on the screen, make it bigger or smaller. With WindowSpace, you can also quickly maximize a window vertically or horizontally, rather than open it full-screen. This feature comes in handy if you want to see the window content with the minimal amount of white space. Also looking at two vertically opened pages sitting next to each other makes things a lot easier to compare, or move content between them.

WindowSpace gives you even more opportunities to manage windows with the keyboard. In just one press of the hotkey, you can tile all desktop windows vertically or horizontally, cascade, or close them. Other useful features, "Minimize To Tray" and "Hide Window" will help you to get rid of the clutter in the taskbar.

Major Features:

  1.  Snap windows to edges & other windows

• Whether you have a small or big screen, you know that too many open windows make computation rather awkward – windows overlap each other, hang partway out of sight so that the user can even forget that an application is open. Snapping is an excellent way to keep your desktop organized.
• The snapping feature is enabled when you move or resize a window with the mouse.
• Once this option is on, windows will snap to each other or to the screen border neatly, edge to edge, rather than block or cover one another completely. You’ll be able to align windows properly without having to reposition them constantly on the desktop, or hunt for the application you need behind other windows.
• When you resize a window with the mouse, snapping allows you to quickly make two or more windows the same width or height.
• Using this feature you can easily line up misplaced windows to clear up more desktop space. It’ll take you less than a second to set any window to its desired position, and make good use of every single pixel of your workspace.

  2.  Move and resize windows with the keyboard

• By default, you can resize windows and drag them over the desktop with the mouse. After installing WindowSpace, you’ll be able to do the same by using a set of keyboard shortcuts. This is a great alternative for laptop users and everyone else who likes keeping hands on the keyboard.
• By pressing Win + Arrow Keys, you can move the active window to the left - right and up - down. Pressing Win + Ctrl + Arrow Keys snaps the window instantly to any of the four edges of the desktop. To change the width or height of the window, press Win + Alt + Arrow Keys several times until the desired window size is achieved. 

  3.  Maximize windows vertically or horizontally

• The “Maximize Vertically” feature is especially useful for the owners of widescreen monitors. This comes in handy if you want to see the window content with the minimal amount of white space. Also looking at two vertically opened pages sitting next to each other makes things a lot easier to compare, or move content between them.
• To maximize a window vertically, you should press the default hotkey combination – Alt+F5, or right-click the Maximize title button. The second right-click or hotkey press shrinks the window to its original size. This feature also works for “child” windows, which are correctly maximized inside their MDI parent.

  4.  Set windows ‘Always On Top’

• The “Always On Top” option is a real helper when you multitask in several applications. It lets you pin a window on top of the other window and work with them both simultaneously, without the need to jump from one window to another.
• With this option in place, you can, for example, put a web browser on top of the word processing document and conveniently move data between the two applications.
• WindowSpace adds the “Always On Top” option to the window menu. This menu appears when you right-click the window title bar or the application taskbar button.
• The availability and position of the new options in the window menu can be customized in the WindowSpace Settings dialog.

  5.  Minimize To Tray + Hide Window

• These two options are clever alternatives to standard Windows minimization. The taskbar is fine for a few windows. But if you open many of them, it becomes cluttered, making it difficult to find a window. With WindowSpace, you’ll get two amazing ways to get rid of this problem. Simply minimize a window to the tray or hide it from view.
• Minimization to tray is helpful when you want some applications – Outlook Express, Firefox, Internet Exlorer – to run in the background and keep the taskbar free for more important programs you’re working with at the moment.
• WindowSpace adds new “Minimize to Tray” and “Hide Window” actions to the standard window buttons. You can quickly minimize a window to the tray or hide it completely from view with a right-click or a middle-click on the Minimize button.
• The “Hide Window” feature will benefit those who need to hide a document, MySpace page, photo album, or instant messenger quickly when someone – the boss or parent – comes into the room to check what’s going on.

  6.  Cascade, Tile and Close All Windows

• In just one press of the hotkey, you can tile windows vertically or horizontally, cascade, or close them all. These options work in much the same way as the standard Windows shortcut - Win + D, which minimizes all open windows to the taskbar.
• To tile windows vertically, for example, you should press Win + V. The first key press arranges all open windows side by side; the second press on the same hotkey brings windows back to their initial positions.
• Press Win + Ctrl + Alt + F4 to quickly close all open windows and clean up the desktop workspace for a new task.

Requirements: Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/Vista and newer operating systems

WareSeeker Editor