Moving a Window upwards in the monitor. (XP Pro)

[N.Manjunatha]

After resizing a window (making it smaller than the screen) one can move it
totally down by holding on to the horizontal bar at the top.

There are times, when it would be convenient if one could move the window up
by holding onto the window at some place near the bottom (the border or
corners) till the top portion of the window is not visible. What is to be
done to make this happen ?

Would be helpful in following scenario:

There may be only one PC at some place in a power generation plant (other
than the main control room). At this place and in certain critical
circumstances, the operator has to view status of equipment from different
parts of the plant, he will have to keep two windows open (i) main window
which has to be of maximum and fixed size and (ii) second window of
slightly smaller (70%) and fixed size. The smaller window is not
provided with scrolling option.

Now if the operator wants to view the data displayed in the upper portion
of the main window and the data displayed closer to the bottom portion of the
smaller window, he will be required to move the smaller window down and up
frequently.

There will be a strain on the operator (hand and eyes) and also chances of
reducing his concentration. This may be avoided if there is an option to
move the smaller window up till only the bottom portion is visible and leave
it there.

 

[Kevin]

Hook up two monitors, so you can have two different application opened, and
visible.

 

[N.Manjunatha]

Thank you for the reply.

I am looking for a solution when only one monitor is being used (whatever
the reason be).

This could be put to use in other situations also (eg. offsite testing).

 

[philo]

After resizing a window (making it smaller than the screen) one can move it
totally down by holding on to the horizontal bar at the top.

There are times, when it would be convenient if one could move the window up
by holding onto the window at some place near the bottom (the border or
corners) till the top portion of the window is not visible. What is to be
done to make this happen ?

Would be helpful in following scenario:

There may be only one PC at some place in a power generation plant (other
than the main control room). At this place and in certain critical
circumstances, the operator has to view status of equipment from different
parts of the plant, he will have to keep two windows open (i) main window
which has to be of maximum and fixed size and (ii) second window of
slightly smaller (70%) and fixed size. The smaller window is not
provided with scrolling option.

Now if the operator wants to view the data displayed in the upper portion
of the main window and the data displayed closer to the bottom portion of the
smaller window, he will be required to move the smaller window down and up
frequently.

There will be a strain on the operator (hand and eyes) and also chances of
reducing his concentration. This may be avoided if there is an option to
move the smaller window up till only the bottom portion is visible and leave
it there.

On a Linux system running Gnome or KDE one can have mutiple desktops.
Though I do use Linux and Windows I am not suggesting that you swtich to
Linux...
However, a multiple desktop option can be implimented on a Windows machine

Here is a link to a KDE project
http://windows.kde.org/


Also ...on this link is Virtual desktop manager

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx



Note: I have never used KDE on a Windows machine
nor have I tried the Virtual desktop manager but if either of them worked...
It would be as good as having four seperate monitors

 

[N.Manjunatha]

Thank you for your response. I am looking for a solution, where only one
desktop is to be used with multiple windows (with facility to move a window
up as mentioned earlier). Due to the end user environment,
multiple/virtual desktops is not advisable and also will not be agreed to.

Thank you for the link to "Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP" which I was
not aware of.

 

[Bob I]

Nope, in windows you can shove it left, right or down. The "Handle" is
the title bar.