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yacht_boy:
I often want to make a window stay always on top, for instance when I'm copying un-OCR'd text from a scanned PDF document to a word processing document by hand.

I used to use a nifty little freeware program called GIPO windows manager (http://www.gibinsoft.net/gipoutils/deskutil/index.htm) that did this along with a couple of other features I don't use.  I recently did a fresh reinstall of XP and when I went to reinstall GIPO, I got a warning from AVG Antivirus saying that there is a trojan horse (Generic2.ewv) in the file.  This is surprising, since the publisher seems to be pretty reputable and sells many other commercial products, but it looks like this is a real trojan from my googling around so I don't want to reinstall it.

I can't seem to find any other true freeware utilities that will keep a window always-on-top, although there are plenty of expensive shareware options.  Anyone want to step up?  I've got a few donation credits left...

Thanks,

Jason

cnewtonne:
did not use it, but this looks nice http://dm2.sourceforge.net

yacht_boy:
Thanks, didn't see that when I was searching.  It does look very nice.  Problem is, I installed it, but I can only seem to make it work on firefox.  It doesn't do what it says it will on my other open applications--in fact, doesn't seem to work at all, except on firefox.  Not sure what's going on, and don't really want to spend hours trying to figure it out, since this is a program that's supposed to make my life marginally easier, not harder!

Also, it's way more complex than I need.  Really just want to keep a window on top, preferably with one click or hotkey.  I'm pretty sure other people out there want to do this, too, judging by the number of pricey shareware apps out there.

I found heldup (http://www.johnmacintyre.ca/HeldUp.asp), but even though it's free it has mandatory registration after 20 days and a strict EULA that is not very friendly.  It does what I want, but with those terms I can't say that it's really freeware.  A competitor to this would be perfect.

Jason

paulobrabo:
I use and recommend Winroll. To keep a window on top just middle-click the [X] (Close) button.

http://www.palma.com.au/winroll/

jgpaiva:
[warning: self-promotion :P]
I always use my gridmove to keep windows on top.
[end of self-promotion]

But if you'd like to keep it absolutelly simple, just use the following code:


--- ---F10::
WinSet,AlwaysOnTop,Toggle,A
return

Just copy it to notepad, save as something.ahk, download and install autohotkey and run the script :)
(btw.. the only thing that script does is toggling the OnTop state of a window when you press F10)

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