Windows 7 comes with lots of new and useful features like Aero Snap and Aero Shake.
"Aero Snap" feature lets you minimize, maximize or resize programs windows by dragging-n-dropping them to the screen corners e.g. you can maximize a window by dragging-n-dropping it to the top of screen.
"Aero Shake" feature lets you minimize all running windows except the one which you are currently working on using a simple mouse shake.
AquaSnap is a free utility which greatly enhances the way you arrange program windows on your Desktop. It gives you the ability to snap windows to the screen edges or to the corners of the desktop by dragging and dropping them where you want.
AquaSnap is a great replacement for the Aero Snap and Aero Shake features of Windows 7 and is compatible with every Windows version including XP and Vista.
AquaSnap makes the window management much more ergonomic. Drag a window to the border of your desktop, and this window will be snapped and resized to fit one half of the screen. Drag this window to a corner, it will be snapped to fit one quarter. Shake a window, and this window will stay always on top.
Features List:
- Can resize windows to half screen and quarter screen.
- Multiple monitors support.
- Works with child windows of Multiple Document Interface (MDI).
- Skinnable interface.
- Multilingual GUI (English and French).
Thanks to our reader "Shahnawaz" for sharing this tool...
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BetaID
Looks great!
Its like having all those programs at once. I just hope its not buggy and crashes a lot.
Definitely going to give this a try. :)
Leomate
Great apps. I liked it. :)
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link6155
This app is glitchy and doesn't work with explorer.exe very well.
Kyle
does it work on Windows 7 cuz im running one (win7) already :o
VG
^^ Yes.
Myst
Good so far, though the other features don't seem to work/I'm probly not moving/clicking correctly.
Though I got the snap feature to work on my fixed vista since that was the one thing I miss from my Win 7 Starter.
[For some reason, I had a hard time allowing/giving this program permission to install. The shield would be blinking in the toolbar but wouldn't open when clicking on it. I also have ViGlance & ViStart installed... I had to go to task manager just to open the permission/shield to allow the install.]
genma
^^the snap functions only trigger within these tiny boundaries at the screen edges, so you have to drag them around till the overlay icon pops up.
this adds a bit of useful functionality, to the worst idea microsoft ever had. I'm not understanding why it seems like such an awsome idea to automate window sizing? the most time consuming part of managing screen realestate is not getting windows to an absolute size, but positioning them so that they occupy 100% of this space. so this automation should involve edge snapping and RELATIVE sizing in proportion to other windows, not absolute widths that may or may not be totally irrelevant to the content within these windows.
I just
want
windows
to snap
EDGES.
how is it this simple function, that should have been in windows by default since 20 years ago, has escaped such a utility? it's like ms totally forgot window borders existed past windows 3.1. besides that huge disspointment, the only function that I really wanted out of this was the shift + click window borders to expand to neighboring windows, which does not work at all, not sure if this is an x86/64 limitation or what.
/rant