Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Open Source, Troubleshooting, Windows x64
SheepDog rounds up stray application windows on multi-monitor setups
by Lee Mathews Nov 10th 2009 at 8:00PM
If only there was some kind of digital shepherd to corral those errant windows. Hey, if not a shepherd, why not SheepDog?
It's a tiny, portable application whose sole purpose is to bring apps that have wandered back to the primary display. Fire it up, and the tray icon listens for a hotket combination to be pressed. In the options screen you can customize your key combo and also change the system tray icon.
Hit the hotkey (or right click the system tray icon and select reposition) and any offending application windows are instantly moved.
At only 20Kb, this baby is going straight on my USB flash drive with all the other handy utilities I need once in a blue moon.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Frenchesco said 9:21PM on 11-10-2009
Or you can right click on the window in the taskbar, select move and then hold down the left arrow key (if the external monitor was attached to the right) to move the window back to the correct screen.
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hazard said 9:38PM on 11-10-2009
Even better .. I just hit an arrow key once (after selecting move) and then you can position the window anywhere you want using the mouse - left click to release. Using just the arrow keys is waaaay too slow.
Scott said 10:28PM on 11-10-2009
In Windows 7 select wayward application in the taskbar, hold Windows key and press right arrow.
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NotRocketboy said 10:59PM on 11-10-2009
WinWarden from Donation Coder can do the same thing... and a heck of a lot more, but I only use it to find 'lost' windows.
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