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• Sizer — When a window must be an exact size

  Posted on May 20, 2024 at 02:43 CDT by Deanna McElveen • Comment in the Forums

  FREEWARE SPOTLIGHT

  

  By Deanna McElveen

  If you must drag the edges of windows to resize them over and over while working, you are wasting minutes of your life that you can never get back.

  Sizer by brianapps.net is one heck of a free program I recently stumbled across that can resize any window (program or explorer window) instantly. I’m pretty excited to share this one, so grab a copy of Sizer from OlderGeeks.com, and let’s get started! It works on all versions of Windows from XP to 11, so unless you are stuck in the 90s, it should work for you.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (21.21.0, 2024-05-20).

  Freeware Spotlight Deanna's Freeware Spotlight, Newsletters, Sizer, UI, User Interface

• Why I leave Windows 11 alone

  Posted on October 9, 2023 at 02:43 CDT by Will Fastie • Comment in the Forums

  WINDOWS 11

  

  By Will Fastie

  It’s not that I think Windows 11 is perfect. It’s just that I don’t let it bother me. Too much, that is.

  Don’t get me wrong — I am not suggesting that using third-party apps such as Start11 or StartAllBack to enhance Windows is a bad idea, or even that you shouldn’t bother. We’ve come to look at Windows as highly customizable over the decades of its existence, and it is thus quite natural to want to continue working in the same manner without having to adapt ourselves to a new paradigm we didn’t ask for.

  I don’t do that. Here’s why, along with a few things I think Microsoft got wrong.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (20.41.0, 2023-10-09).

  Windows 11 File Explorer, Newsletters, Start menu, Touch, UI, User Interface, Windows, Windows 11