pierre

Ryanraven

Aero7

I have been using it for quite a while and it works like a charm. Now there is one icon instead of many in my Systray.

moontear

dukeofcrydee

Download: [labinskiy.googlepages.com]
Just unpack and run ;)

e-moe

nakke

Nxqd3051990

mattc

Just remember to put the closing ) in the URL as well, instead of simply clicking on the link.

Here's a TinyURL version (with a preview) of the above link: [preview.tinyurl.com]

Ivan Mirić

Here's what I stumbled upon: [www.autohotkey.com]).htm

This small script runs quietly in your system tray with its unmistakably ugly AHK icon, and does at least two important things:

1. Let's you drag ANY window the way it's done in Linux WMs: by pressing ALT and holding left click anywhere inside the window.
2. And it seems to do what this featured download does -- although, I warn you, I haven't tried ResizeEnable; I'm just judging from the article --: resize virtually any window, whether the application allows it or not, by pressing ALT and right-clicking anywhere in the window area. I had a lot of fun resizing dialog boxes and Windows configuration programs.

The thing that surprised me was how seamless it seemed to actually be. It's really all native Windows behavior, just activated by this small AHK script.

I didn't find sense in AHK before, but after seeing this small example, it can certainly be capable of replacing small apps such as ResizeEnable.

HTH,

Ivan

Ivan Mirić

laldrich

Windows that are document/view style, where you can have multiple windows open (like Word) do this automatically because it's built in to the framework to do it. Dialogs (which look like forms, usually with a grayish brown background) require special code to make the contents shift or re-size. It's highly unlikely that the programmer would spend all the time needed to write code to resize a dialog and then forgot to set the check-box to enable resizing.

As for dialogs having controls "falling off the side" or clipping, thats always a result of the font and/or icon sizes being set to something besides the default values. If you tweak your default system font and/or change your icon display size, you're going to see this behavior, especially in older apps. The better solution is to just change your settings back to normal and let it be!

WoodyInNY

Second: I am with RORINIHO, this should be made into a .dll file, or if someone had a guide on how to get into your MSCONFIG and edit it so that you can resize any window, i would for one prefer that over just another program running.

skilled1

Think MSCONFIG!

whofysh

As the author says in the accompanying Readme "It's a very ugly system hack." Not surprisingly, it doesn't work for everything. I'm glad for PERIODONTIST that s/he was able to get it to work for something.

And I second the finding that you can just fire this up when you need to resize a window, and then shut it down after resizing.

billyo

Another plus, although it resides in your system tray, there is no installation, so you can pretty much just launch it when needed and then kill it right afterwards.

periodontist

xnendron

Weazul

Thanks Lifehacker!

Beanalby

Roriniho

I'm all about not having a lot of stuff running in my system tray. I kinda loathe it. But now that you keep showing me awesome apps to run down there, my tray keeps expanding! =P

misterlee