Download
Taekwindow from
http://taekwindow.sourceforge.net/download.html.
Taekwindow works in Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7, in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of each. For this post, we tested
Taekwindow in Windows XP SP2, 32-bit. The makers of
Taekwindow say that Windows 2000 is no longer supported, but it might work anyway.
Taekwindow does not need to be installed. Simply unzip the downloaded file to any folder and double-click on the
taekwindow.exe file to run the program.
The
Taekwindow icon displays in the system tray.
To use
Taekwindow to move a window, hold the left
Alt key down and drag on a window with the left mouse button. If you are using multiple monitors, you can use this method to move a maximized window to a different monitor.
NOTE: This post assumes you are using the left mouse button as your main button. If you have switched the mouse buttons, reverse the references to the left and right mouse buttons.
To resize a window, hold the left
Alt key down and drag on a window with the right mouse button. If the window you are resizing is maximized, it is automatically un-maximized.
If you want to move a window to the background, click the middle button on your mouse anywhere on the window.
Taekwindow also allows you to scroll in any window under the cursor. The window does not have to have focus. Simply hold the mouse over the window and use the scroll wheel to scroll in the window.
Some applications need to handle events that
Taekwindow also handles. In this case, you will need to temporarily disable
Taekwindow. You can do this without exiting
Taekwindow completely. Left-click on the
Taekwindow icon in the system tray to disable it. The icon turns gray to indicate
Taekwindow is disabled. Left-click on the
Taekwindow icon again to enable it.
You can also right-click on the
Taekwindow icon and select
Enable Taekwindow from the popup menu to disable and enable
Taekwindow.
There are many settings you can customize in
Taekwindow. To access these settings, right-click on the
Taekwindow icon in the system tray and select
Preferences from the popup menu.
NOTE: You can also double-click the
Taekwindow icon to open the
Preferences dialog box.
The
General tab on the
Preferences dialog box displays. If you want
Taekwindow to run when Windows starts, select the
Start when logging on check box so there is a check mark in the box. This adds a shortcut to the
Startup folder in the
Start menu folder.
You can hide the
Taekwindow icon in the system tray. If you do this, and you want to access the
Preferences dialog box, or show the system tray icon again, double-click the
taekwindow.exe file again. The
Preferences dialog box displays and you can change settings and choose to show the
Taekwindow icon in the system tray again for easy access.
Taekwindow can be a portable program that you run from a USB flash drive on different computers. To do this, you need to tell
Taekwindow to store its settings in a
taekwindow.ini file in the same directory as the
taekwindow.exe file. To make
Taekwindow portable, select the
INI file radio button in the
Settings location box.
Click the
Keys and buttons tab to specify which
Alt key to use (in the
Keyboard box) and which mouse buttons to use (in the
Mouse box) when moving and resizing windows. You can also turn off the feature that allows you to move a window to the back by clicking the middle mouse button on the title bar. To do this, select the
Push windows back with middle mouse button on title bar check box so there is NO check mark in the box.
The
Resizing tab allows you to choose the behavior for resizing windows. The default option (
Closest corner/edge) resizes the window from the corner or edge that is closest to the point on the window where you click the mouse. If you want to always resize windows from the lower right corner, select the
Bottom right corner radio button.
Click the
Scrolling tab to change which window is scrolled using the scroll wheel. To scroll in the window currently under the mouse cursor, select the
Scroll the window under the cursor radio button. If you want to use the Windows default for this setting, and only scroll in the window that currently has focus, select the
Scroll the focused window radio button.
To save your settings and close the
Preferences dialog box, click
OK.
To completely close
Taekwindow, right-click on the
Taekwindow icon in the system tray and select
Exit from the popup window.
NOTE: You can also close
Taekwindow using the
Exit button on the
Preferences dialog box. This is handy if you have hidden the
Taekwindow icon on the system tray. You can simply run the
taekwindow.exe file again and click
Exit.
Taekwindow is a handy tool to have if you must use Windows but you are used to using Linux. It simulates the
Alt-drag feature in Linux for moving and resizing windows and allows you to scroll any window under the mouse cursor, like you can in Linux.
Enjoy!!!
After the installation, you will see it residing in the system tray. The application is persistent in checking all the instances which are running in background. Be it user initiated threads or system’s self generated, it keeps them all under observation. From its system tray menu, click Configure to view all the process which are being monitored and to specify 3rd-party application to include in the system tray menu. You can set CPU usage priority of each running application, kill an application, or terminate selected application forcibly.
Explicit Rule feature is quite useful, alongside priority, rules can be created with each active application. You can keep thread’s CPU usage to low, high, below normal, etc.
plication tries to transgress the defined threshold, it will start minimizing application’s CPU usage.
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Enjoy!!!