A very nice and practical tool for Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 allows you to move the open windows of programs or folders, automatically, resizing them on the screen so that all are visible. Practically, if, for example, you have the Firefox browser open, a folder of files and a program like Word open, normally you have to lower two of the windows to work on the third one or you have to resize them with the mouse by pulling the corners of the windows and moving them.
With Plumb, when all three windows are open (not iconized on the taskbar), all three become visible, with the screen automatically dividing into three sections like a grid.
Personally it is a tool that I am using and leaving active on my computer because it is highly configurable and really useful.
The program is called Plumb and you need to install it to activate it.
After installation, Plumb immediately runs in the background and you should notice its icon on the taskbar on the right near the clock.
By pressing on it with the right button you can access the properties which are written in English and which we are now going to see also to understand what this tool does.
The first tab of the properties is the most important because it allows you to enable or disable automatic movement and resizing.
Placing the cross on the Autotile box activates Plumb and if you open multiple windows on the desktop, they begin to arrange themselves automatically on the screen.
From the general properties you can choose whether to start the program automatically with Windows, whether to start it minimized, whether to see the icon on the system tray and whether to check for updates.
In the second tab you can customize the resizing and moving.
The most important one that I have activated is the fourth one: Maximize single Windows so, when a single window or a single program is opened, it appears maximized in full screen.
If you then open the second one, the screen divides into two parts automatically, showing them both.
If one of the two is knocked down and then hidden, the remaining one returns to full screen.
You can also decide whether the division of the screen should be horizontally rather than vertically.
In the third tab there is another important option for deciding what is the maximum number of windows that can be displayed together and, therefore, in how many parts the screen is divided.
If you choose 4, you will be able to open 4 open windows that will take 25% of the space of the whole screen while if they are 3, one of these will occupy half.
The Windows Selections tab allows you to include or exclude windows from self-sizing and, therefore, prevent Plumb from acting on them.
In this case, you have to hold down the left mouse button on the "drag" button and move it towards the window to be excluded or included.
Finally, in the Advanced tab you can enable two options: one to remember the position of the windows, the other to restore the reduced and hidden windows.
Who works with many windows and programs and who has a large monitor, will find this Plumb very useful and advantageous for its being fully automatic.
In other articles I had already listed several alternatives including:
- 4 programs to align Windows windows on a grid and move them quickly (Win Layout, GridMove, Gridy).
- Aerosnap to place two windows quickly on Windows XP
- Divide the monitor screen with many open windows (WinSplit Revolution, Maxto, Acer Grid Vista).
