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Preventing windows from going over the top of the screen (in win XP)

Preventing windows from going over the top of the screen (in win XP)

These days I work on both Windows and Mac OS X machines. I'm a long time fan of Mac and would like to get some of the UI functionality on the windows machines I work with.

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Guest [Entry]

"Pitaschio can do this, and much much more:


Snap a window to other windows when moving and resizing
Restrict a window position to inside of the screen
Always keep a window above all other windows
Minimize a window to the system tray
Use small icons in the desktop
Disable Windows key, Insert key, Alt key etc.
Lock the mouse or keyboard while cleaning them
Take statistics about mouse and keyboard
Calculate Moon's age
Control the sound volume using the mouse wheel
Display the sound volume level on the screen


Pitaschio is freeware.

If you only want the top of the screen to be a boundary, you can use AutoHotkey's functions WinGetPos and WinMove.

To get the position of the active window, and store it in the variables X and Y:

WinGetPos, X, Y, , , A

if the window you're moving goes out of the top boundary (negative value for Y), call WinMove:

WinGetTitle, Title, A ; get its title
WinMove, %Title% , , %X%, 0 ; leave X value alone, modify Y"
Guest [Entry]

DesktopCoral can do this. You can set an invisible docking bar in any corner on the screen.