You know me, I am always looking for methods for me to work faster on my computer such as using shortcut keys, mouseless browsing firefox addon and etc. In fact, I use my keyboard more than mouse because it has been proven that keyboard works faster than mouse. One annoying problem in Windows that I don’t like is when I have a lot of programs and windows open and navigating around them in my 17″ LCD monitor is somehow tough.

To move an active window in Windows operating system, we’ll have to make sure that the window is not maximized and we’ll have to move the mouse cursor to the titlebar to drag it. However this is done much easily in Linux operating system by holding the Alt key and then just left click anywhere on the window dragging it anywhere we like. This saves you the trouble of moving your mouse all the way to the top to restore down the Window first and then move it by holding the left click on titlebar.

I found a small tool called Flying Windows that is able to enable the Alt + Window drag in Windows plus a few more useful hacks for Windows system.

First of all, Flying Windows is portable and very small. The executable file is only 7.88KB in size and the DLL is only 3KB. Running in in background takes only over 3MB from memory.

Alt Left click drag window

Flying windows option enables you to drag both active and background windows by pressing and holding the Alt key plus using your mouse to left click and drag to wherever you want. Very handy when you have a lot of open windows at the same time. Then there is intelligent mousewheel option which allows you to scroll the window using your mouse wheel without having to bring them to focus first. Again this is very convenient when you have a lot of open windows. Finally, Flying Windows includes “enable and unhider” feature where it can reveal passwords behind asterisk, enable “disabled” menu and submenu, windows title buttons, buttons, checkboxes and read-only edit controls. It can even remove text limit for an edit controls if there are programs that has. Do take note that the “enabler and unhider” option is recommended to be disabled and only enable when you really need to use it.

You’ll notice that there is a time counter but not to worry because it is not some sort of time bomb. It’ll count the amount of time Flying Windows running on your computer. The time counter feature cannot be disabled and the count is stored in a configuration file flyingwindows.ini every minute.

I’ve scanned flyingwindows.exe with 39 types of antivirus from VirusTotal and 16 of them found it suspicious. I’ve analyzed the file on ThreatExpert and it is absolutely safe. The reason why some paranoid antivirus detects it as a threat is because the author of Flying Windows used a packer (MEW 11 SE) that is known to be used by malware to compress the program.

[ Download Flying Windows v1.3 ]

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