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MilesAhead:
Adjust Work Area 1.0.0.0

http://www.favessoft.com/downloads.html

Command line utility to set the desktop work area to specific values.

Usage:  awa  Left Top Right Bottom (e.g. awa 0 0 1024 740)

Usage: awa
by itself displays the current work area and parameter info.

Note: I replaced Set Work Area with a FreeBASIC command line awa.exe that's only 81 KB.

MilesAhead:
Set Work Area 1.2.0.0 Added Time Out to Success Dialog.  Download now includes awa.exe.  It works exactly the same as SetWA but all message output is to the console.

To use awa.exe when Windows starts you can create a batch file in a folder in your Path. Just a 2 liner like swa.cmd


--- ---@echo off
cmd.exe /k awa 0 0 1280 908

This way the console will stay open after login so you can verify the work area was successfully adjusted. If you tend to use the same screen res. and toolbar placement then there's no need to have an app riding in the Task Tray basically doing nothing but monitoring for screen resolution change.

kyrathaba:
Nice, useful program, MilesAhead :up:

MilesAhead:
Nice, useful program, MilesAhead :up:
-kyrathaba (June 19, 2011, 09:43 AM)
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Thanks for the comment. :)

MilesAhead:
I rewrote awa.exe console version in FreeBASIC.  The exe size is reduced to 78 KB.  Also changed the icon to match FavesSoft site favicon.

Note that all output is done using 'print' statements.  No longer any need to redirect stderr if you wish to send results to a log file.

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