Wynand32

With the advent of larger LCD's (for example, I just got a 24" at work, and it's HUGE), there seems to be a need for an application to control window placement. It would be great to partition the screen (and multiple screens with multi-monitor support) into preset quadrants, and then be able to drop windows into a quadrant. That way, one could easily place, say, a Word document in one half of the screen and an Explorer window in another for research. If this already exists in OD, then my apologi

Oops, it's late. My Taskbar was locked. Unlocking it did the trick, of course...

Taskbar, notification area, and Quick Launch messed up since installing/running Windowsblinds 5. Basically, the Taskbar is now double-sized and can't be changed, the Quick Launch icons are all now showing and won't hide, and the notification area icons are mostly showing (although the arrow is still there to hide just a few of them). Any ideas how to return things to normal? Thanks!

Okay, I read the link, and I'm even more confused. WindowsBlinds improves battery life? How does it manage this? I'm not doubting it, I'm literally curious as to how it's accomplished.

Aha, okay, thanks. So then using Windowblinds shouldn't impact battery life (or it stressing the system and, indeed, causing lower performance?)...

The standard notebook power setting "Power Savings" switches from Aero to Basic when the system switches from A/C to D/C. However, when Windowblinds is running, this switch doesn't occur. Or, perhaps, I'm misunderstanding how Windowblinds works, in that when I switch to battery the transparencies and such remain. My understanding is that WindowBlinds uses Aero for its effects. Is this true, or does it have its own methods? And, do these affect battery life the way that Aero does? <b