"Tile Windows" shortcut??

[Guest]

Is there a way to get a shortcut for the quicklaunch bar that would tile the
windows? Currently the only way I can find to do it is right-click on the
taskbar and select from the menu. I'd like something like the "show desktop"
button, that I can just single-click on and have it do the tiling.

Is there an .exe command I can create a shortcut for, or am I just stuck
with the right-click thing? ( yeah yeah, I know, I'm lazy!)

~Thanks!

 

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

Is there a way to get a shortcut for the quicklaunch bar that would tile the
windows? Currently the only way I can find to do it is right-click on the
taskbar and select from the menu. I'd like something like the "show desktop"
button, that I can just single-click on and have it do the tiling.

Is there an .exe command I can create a shortcut for, or am I just stuck
with the right-click thing? ( yeah yeah, I know, I'm lazy!)

~Thanks!

Hi

Put this line in a .vbs file (VBScript) and create a shortcut to it:

CreateObject("Shell.Application").MinimizeAll

 

[Guest]

Thanks for replying, but what I was looking for was a command to "Tile
Windows Horizontally" or "Tile Windows Vertically" ... I already have the
"show desktop" command to minimize all the windows. I tried what you
suggested, and it did work for that, but now I need to know what I should put
in there to get the windows to tile.

Thanks again,
~Jody

 

[dev]

/defwack/ said:

Thanks for replying, but what I was looking for was a command to "Tile
Windows Horizontally" or "Tile Windows Vertically" ... I already have the
"show desktop" command to minimize all the windows. I tried what you
suggested, and it did work for that, but now I need to know what I should put
in there to get the windows to tile.

The keys work well, after clicking an open area of the taskbar...

Press the context menu key (likely just to the right of the Windows key
that has the flag).
Then press r "h" for horizontal or "e" for vertical.

 

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

Thanks for replying, but what I was looking for was a command to "Tile
Windows Horizontally" or "Tile Windows Vertically" ... I already have the
"show desktop" command to minimize all the windows. I tried what you
suggested, and it did work for that, but now I need to know what I should put
in there to get the windows to tile.

Hi

Sorry, I was not awake when I replied I think ;-)

This should do what you want:

CreateObject("Shell.Application").TileHorizontally

and

CreateObject("Shell.Application").TileVertically