Move and Resize Windows with WindowsPad
Windows XP and Vista offer only limited ways to control window placement and size on your screen. Sometimes the built-in features are not enough. For example, on my Windows XP laptop, I use one screen resolution on the laptop screen and another screen resolution on the monitor attached to my docking station. When I undock the laptop, windows that were fine on the docked screen, may now be too large for the laptop screen. The same happens if I dock the laptop somewhere else where the docked monitor has a different resolution. The only way to view those windows is to maximize them, but then I cannot resize them or move them to another monitor. In the past I had to shut down the application and start them up again.
After searching online for a solution I came across a story on Lifehacker called Make the most of Your Dual Monitors. They mention an AutoHotkey script called WindowPad that solves my problem. WindowPad lets you use the Windows key and the keyboard’s number pad to move and arrange windows. In particular, I can now move a window from one monitor to another on using the Windows key plus the ‘dot’ on the numerical keypad. This works even with maximized windows.
You can download the WindowPad script or the compiled version WindowPad.