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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Minimizes all windows except the active one (with fexiblity)

« on: April 29, 2008, 10:28 AM »

I've been testing Swept Away all day and it seems to be doing the job, however it still has a problem with Pivotal eRelation (both Swept Away and MinimOther) and had to exclude it for now in Swept Away which is handy as I can push on until a fix.

Annoyning thing is that Pivitol eats up all the memory, but hopefully by minimizing the other apps (IE 7, Word, Excel etc etc)it will still make a huge difference to the memory usage!

So for the moment I'm happy using Swept Away as it has more features. MinimOther is great (does what it says on the tin).

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Minimizes all windows except the active one (with fexiblity)

« on: April 29, 2008, 05:01 AM »

Also found this but it seems to use a constant 10% CPU.

http://lifehacker.co...y-windows-255055.php

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Minimizes all windows except the active one (with fexiblity)

« on: April 29, 2008, 04:36 AM »

Thanks Lanux,

I will get some screen shots for you...

Interesting that the orginal post mentions the reduction in Memory usage. I did some calculations and it looks like it will save between 64% and 70% of memory just by minimising these apps! In a Terminal Server enviroment this is HUGE!

How are your apps behaving after using this app?

I'm testing using Office 2003 (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel), Internet Explorer 7, Pivotal eRelationship (problem app) to see how they behave.

Cheers,
Sylex22

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Minimizes all windows except the active one (with fexiblity)

« on: April 25, 2008, 10:51 AM »

Yes the software can be downloaded from: https://www.donation...m/Software/Skrommel/

This is the free source code which I believe is coded in AutoHotKey (which I know nothing about - well scripting all together in fact):

;MinimOther.ahk
; Minimize all windows except the one active
;Skrommel @2005

#SingleInstance,Force
SetWinDelay,0

START:
Sleep,200
IfWinNotExist,ahk_id %id%
  WinRestore,A
WinGet,id,ID,A
WinGet,style,Style,ahk_id %id%
If(style & 0x20000)
{
  WinGet,winid_,List,,,Program Manager
  Loop,%winid_%
  {
    StringTrimRight,winid,winid_%A_Index%,0
    If id=%winid%
      Continue
    WinGet,style,Style,ahk_id %winid%
    If(style & 0x20000)
    {
      WinGet,state,MinMax,ahk_id %winid%,
      If state=-1
        Continue
      WinGetClass,class,ahk_id %winid%
      If class=Shell_TrayWnd
        Continue
      IfWinExist,ahk_id %winid%
        WinMinimize,ahk_id %winid%
    }
  }
}
Goto,START

I spoke a developer as well and he doesn't really know what to do.

Anybody any good with this scripting? Possibly needs a fews tweaks and then re-compiled?

Let me know your thoughts...

Sylex22

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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: Minimizes all windows except the active one (with fexiblity)

« on: April 25, 2008, 06:47 AM »

Hi,

I found the awesome application (MinimOther) which does exactly what it says on the tin and is working like a charm.

However I'm struggling a little and hope you can help?

I have an application (Relation.exe), once opened it opens multiple other windows within itself. if I minimize the Relation.exe then it minimizes the app and all the windows within it. Therefore when MinimOther is running and I open a new window within itself it minimizes the whole Relation.exe itself therefore taking all the other windows with it.

I know the app ignores dialog windows which it seems to handle (i think). It seems these additional windows within Relation.exe are not dialog windows and are therefore treat like a seporate application.

Do you know if there is a way to stop it from minimizing windows within an active window? Also maybe some flexiblity to exclude certain applications?

This reason we want this application urgently is due to the fact that when minimizing an application it frees up so much memory (RAM), rather than flicking between applications which holds onto memory.

Example of RAM usage:

Outlook.exe - (on open: 24MB), (Minimized: 1.5 MB), (on restore: 6 MB)
Relation.exe - (on open: 80MB), (Minimized: 3.2 MB), (on restore: 9 MB)

We work in a terminal Server enviroment and users share RAM, by running MinimOther we can cut memory usage significantly!!!!

Your help would be much appreciated.

Please let me know if you need any further information.

Sylex22