Windows 7 finally introduced the ability to dock your separate applications into different portions of the screen. Since most of us haven’t adopted Windows 7 yet, AutoHotKey for Windows provides the same functionality now. As a web developer, I rarely work in an IDE, so I am constantly using AutoHotKey to control my windows, instead.
I took a script featured at LifeHacker, and modified it to suit my own needs. Specifically, I bound Windows+Down to resize the active window to be short and wide at the bottom of the screen.
So my ‘docks’ are:
Windows+Up: Full Screen
Windows+Left: The left half of the screen
Windows+Right: The right half of the screen
Windows+Down: A wide window in the bottom third of the screen. My script also makes Windows+N open GVim, and makes Windows+G launch a Google search, because it’s just that awesome.
And here is my script: autohotkey ahk