FreeSnap for Windows

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• For me, this is an indispensible desktop extension.

  WwwfredJanuary 6, 2010

  Pros

  - Offers long-desired and indispensible functionality

  Cons

  - To put a window in the left or right half of the screen takes 4 key presses. - Some standard key shortcuts are overruled. (e.g. Win+Tab; in 'laptop mode' also Win+L) - If you center a window and then resize it, it's no longer centered.

  Summary

  I'm using this tool mainly to resize/move windows to one of the following configurations: 1) two windows, next to each other (filling the left and right half of the screen) 2) one window, centered, and resized to 1/2 or 2/3 of the screen width and full screen height. This makes documents easier to read (compared to full screen size and left/right half of the screen). However, this kind of usage was apparently not anticipated by the makers, because you have to edit the configuration file to define customized window sizes to be able to do this quickly. (TIP!) This tool has become indispensible for me, but I think it could be improved by making the above-mentioned functions accessible in a more ergonomic way: Most importantly, I'd like to be able to customize the key shortcuts, and to be able to move and resize a window to the desired size and position in one key press.

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