What’s is Borderline?

Borderline is a tiny utility program that simply moves any windows outside the screen area of your computer monitor (or monitors in a dual + monitor setup) completely within the screen area.

Why Would You Want It?

Sometimes Windows move off the screen area of your monitor. This may be for many reasons such as changing resolution of the monitor or changing from a multi-monitor setup to a single monitor. Whatever the cause it can be extremely frustrating and even worse, if the Window does not show in the Windows Taskbar area. This post on Recover Hidden & Off-screen Windows with this Simple Tip and Freeware Program ForceWindowVisible will give you more information with:

• A way of moving windows on screen using “Windows Standard Move Function” (slow and requires the window to be shown in the Taskbar)
• A small portable utility called ForceWindowsVisible

The advantage of Borderline over ForceWindowsVisible is that it is simple and quick. Also ForceWindowsVisible can cause problems if you hide or unhide windows that are not meant to be seen or not meant to be hidden by mistake (or maybe just “experimenting” )

When Borderline is run it moves al windows within the borders of the monitor screen(s) and then closes. This means you have to run it each time but has the advantage that it does not run in the background using memory and CPU.

What Does It Do – The Essentials?

Summary:

• Moves all open Windows completely on screen of the monitor (or monitors in a multi-monitor setup
• Borderline closes down after running

Pros: What’s Good?

Features & Benefits

• Freeware

• Portable
• Very Simple to Use
• Tiny
• Handy Help file (html)

Cons:What’s Not So Good?

• Option to run continuously in the background would be useful
• Need to create shortcut to run conveniently

More About What it Does in Detail:

The James’s Software website gives the following details:

Borderline v1.0.0

• Moves windows to be within the screen borders. When changing the screen orientation on my Tablet PC, or when connecting from a single-headed client to a multi-headed host with remote desktop, some windows occasionally get left outside the screen.
• For Windows 2000, Windows XP, or later.

The following description is taken from the included html help file:

 

Description

Some applications have a habit of appearing outside the screen. This can happen when applications remember their last window position between runs and if the desktop resolution or monitor configuration changed in the meantime. This is not uncommon with remote desktop when the client and server have different screen resolutions or monitor configurations. This sometimes also occurs if a system changes its desktop resolution frequently, such as when Tablet PCs change their display orientation.

Or some applications don’t behave well if the taskbar is docked to the top- or left- edges of the screen.

Or maybe you want an application window to be aligned exactly to a screen edge.

Borderline takes all windows that fall off the edge of the screen and moves them back into the screen bounds. For multi-monitor systems, each window will be moved to rest wholly on its nearest screen.

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