Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Productivity, Freeware
Hot Corners adds OSX-style magic corners to Windows
by Lee Mathews Dec 9th 2008 at 9:00AM
I'm a big fan of applications that extend the power of my keyboard, but I like being able to to teach my mouse some new tricks as well.Hot Corners is a application that allows you to assign a number of actions that occur when your mouse hovers over the corners of your desktop. Choose to show your desktop, lock your workstation, activate a screen saver, or launch any program on your computer.
In addition to assigning actions to the four corners of your screen, Hot Corners can add four mouse gesture actions. Hold the Windows key and tap X, and your pointer will move to the center of the screen. Mousing left, right, up, or down executes your pre-defined action.
A system tray icon provides quick access to disable your corners, gestures, or both.
Hot Corners is written in AutoIT3 and full source code is available for download from the author's site. It's freeware for Windows only, and is portable - just drop the program files directory onto your flash drive.
Update: Due to all the comments, I tested the download again. ClamWin reports it clean, as do VirusTotal and NoVirusThanks.Org. Those of you reporting positives, what AV are you running?
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Fred said 9:35AM on 12-09-2008
Sad! Avast detect a Virus/Worm.
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Josh Smith said 9:44AM on 12-09-2008
Crap McAfee calls Trojan as well which means no install here at work.
The author notes that it is ID'd as a virus by some due to a file placement.
Since it's source code available anyone want to muck about and make one that doesn't place the offending file in the windows directory.
I was very excited too.
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David said 11:40AM on 12-09-2008
it comes with compiz...
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Michael said 12:19PM on 12-09-2008
Not able to install, says access denied.
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ash said 4:28PM on 12-09-2008
le sigh..this was on lifehacker a while ago and it was found to have a trojan (only since it installs something in the Windows directory).
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Gene said 10:56PM on 12-09-2008
Very disappointed. This program contains a VIRUS. Thats bad enough but the fact that you people (DOWNLOAD SQUAD) don't check these programs is very upsetting. I obviously was mislead about your standards
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Lee Mathews said 10:57PM on 12-09-2008
Gene, slow your roll. I scan everything I post on here. Please see the new note above, and feel free to tell us what AV you're using. ClamWin is pretty reliable, but I've double and triple checked now, and it still looks clean.
Brandon said 9:19PM on 12-09-2008
Let us know when it's not detected as a virus. I was excited to make my PC like my Mac, but oh well........
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Chris said 2:56AM on 12-10-2008
Can't install. Avast detected a virus/worm
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cicom3nd3z said 3:43AM on 12-10-2008
It creates and executes a tmp.scf file inside your temp folder. All that file does is show the desktop when the user asks. Maybe the author should give up this function or do it in a less suspicious way. But it's not a virus.
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John said 3:27AM on 12-12-2008
Avira reporting a virus too.
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richy240 said 11:35AM on 12-17-2008
Symantec AV Corporate claims it's a virus too. I'm more likely to believe Symantec than some random developer out there. Nice QC Download Squad... I expect more from you. Seriously.
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Lee Mathews said 11:53AM on 12-17-2008
And yet ESET and ClamWin claim it's not. I definitely trust ESET more than Symantec as far as false positives go.
The developer has now released the source code. I'm confident the application is clean. I wouldn't have posted it otherwise.