Freesnap: Maximize Individual Window Edges

By Josh | May 28, 2008

Freesnap is a nice little program that will run quietly on your computer, and will allow you to maximize an edge of a window. In other words, say you only want a window to be maximized horizontally, all you have to do is press the correct hotkey. Freesnap also makes it easy to position a window to any of the four corners of the screen. The default hotkeys are the Windows key+Arrow keys for maximizing windows, and Windows key+number pad keys (1, 3, 7, 9) for positioning a window to an edge. Pressing the Windows key plus the number pad’s 5 key will position the window in the center of the screen.

Another feature that is included is a way to resize your windows to a preset size. The sizes are: 640 x 480, 800 x 600, 1024 x 768, 1152 x 864, and 1280 x 1024. To resize your windows to one of these preset sizes, all you have to do is press the Windows key plus the number pad’s “Plus” and “Minus” keys. This is nice for seeing how a webpage might look in different screen resolutions.

Freesnap is taking up less than 5 MB of memory on my computer, and it provides me with an easy way to resize windows.

Via FreewareGenius.