Nifty Windows! Makes Win XP/Vista/7 that much nicer!
In my online searches, learning more about AutoHotKey scripts, I found out a couple very interesting things!
First, you can compile an .AHK script into an .EXE! Nice..
Next, there are some wicked cool scripts out there that people have turned into full blown installs. The best and most useful I’ve seen thus far is “Nifty Windows”.
How long we have put up with moving and resizing windows by specifically dragging the title bar or thin edges of windows! Barbaric, I tell you! Enter Nifty Windows, and now I can move, resize, minimize, and close programs with such intuitive speed – like they are dynamic “cards” on a table. Folks, this is a beautiful thing. No matter where your mouse is, in the window, just move the whole thing around, without having to specifically position the cursor anywhere in the surrounding frame. Or do a Right then Left click sequence and it minimizes it. No need to find the minimize button. A simple Right click with a Middle-Mouse click, and it closes whatever you did that on. Or if I do the Right-then-Left click on the title bar instead of IN the window, it rolls up the window to just a title bar.
The download link for NiftyWindows is here.
The extent of what it does is nutty-awesome. I’m only used to (at this point) the moving, resizing, minimizing, and closing functions — which are all done with the mouse (no meta-key combos needed). But if I get into the holding down CTRL or ALT or WINKEY in combo with the mouse, there are tons of other features available — transparency, click thru, etc.