What Is It?

Zonesize is a simple utility whose sole purpose is to predefine window sizing templates on your monitor. These zones can be defined by pixel position or as a percentage of the screen size and they can overlap which is what makes the utility really useful. You simply drag the window over the zone and it automatically resizes to fit. It is one of the many “1 Hour Software” utilities from Skrommel at DonationCoder.

Why Would You Want It?

There are often times when you need to have 2 or more windows displayed on the same screen where you are using both programs at once. For instance you may be viewing a browser window while writing to another document. In these situations you may also want to drag and drop text or graphics from one window to the other. Zonesize allows you to have a predefined set of window sizes or zones to suit your working pattern

How Do You Use it?

Having defined the zones you wish to use you simply drag the window over the zone and allow it to resize automatically within a predefined time (user definable). You can drag the window from one zone to another to suit your required working arrangements.

Why Do I Want It?

I generally manage quite well with a 2 monitor “multi-monitor setup but there are times when I need access to more windows. Zonesize not only allows me to predefine some windows sizes for my working area across both monitors, it also allows for overlapping zones and zones within zones as you will see later. The benefits of overlapping zones, as is demonstrated in the example below, is the ability to quickly make windows active by clicking on the non-overlapped areas. Using a utility to keep windows “always on top” such as DeskPins – Help to Stop Other Windows Stealing Focus further enhances the use of Zonesize so that you can keep a smaller windows always on top within another larger window.

Note: In carrying out this review I have also come across:

Auto Window Manager from Eusing Software

Gridmove from JGPaiva at DonationCoder

which may be even better,I will check them out shortly.

What Does It Do – The Essentials?

Summary:

• Resizes Windows to predefined “Zone” sizes by dragging

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Features & Benefits

• Freeware

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Popularity: 21% [?]

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What Is It?

A small and efficient utility to manage the amount of CPU time being used by the programs currently running on your PC. This is achieved by a simple set of rules that you can control through the Process Tamer GUI.

As I have said before I am a huge fan of the Donation Coder utilities and this is one that I have installed on all of the PC’s/Laptops I use on a regular basis.

Why Would You Want It?

Some processes(programs) use the CPU very intensively when they are running or maybe only at certain times. When this happens other programs that you are running have less CPU time available and therefore respond slowly. Sometimes you may have to wait for relatively long periods of time before the program you are currently working with will respond or it behaves very sluggishly. Process Tamer will help to overcome these sort of problems in a simple and intuitive way..

What Does It Do – The Essentials?

Allows you to set rules for the process priority of running processes based on individual process names or global rules.

Summary:

• Provides a way of automatically changing process priority
• Allows the setting of explicit rules for individual processes
• Shows feedback on changes being made in real time
• Optional Log of changes as they occur

Pros: What’s Good?

• Freeware

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Popularity: 27% [?]

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The Donation Coder web site offers a selection of freeware programs and portable freeware utilities some of which are written in the autohotkey scripting language. There is a wide range of programs from small utilities to carry out a relatively simple task to far more complex programs such as Find & Run Robot or Process Tamer. Many of the utilities are available both as a source code (*.ahk) and executable programs (*.exe). This means that you can easily use the utilities straight away or you can modify them for yourself using autohotkey which can be relatively easily learned at a basic level. The icing on the cake is that custom made utilities can be requested.

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Popularity: 14% [?]

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What Does it Do – The Essentials?

MoveOut is a small Windows utility that will automatically move files from one directory to another and is authored by the developer “Skrommel” in a series of small utilities under the banner of “1 Hour Software”. It is a small freeware utility available from the DonationCoder website of which I am a great fan. For more details on how and why these utilities are written and who writes them see the post on DonationCoder Utilities.

Summary:

• Moves Files from one folder to another
• Files can be specified using rules and filters with wildcards
• Can be set to run automatically at Startup
• Can be started or stopped from the system tray Icon

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Popularity: 18% [?]

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