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
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.
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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.
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The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
