GridVista or equivalent available?

Is there a utility such as Grid Vista that allows you to drag and drop windows onto sections of the screen, and the windows will be automatically tiled so as to make maximum use of your screen resolution?

Let me know if that doesn't make sense..

 

Visited this forum to ask the very same thing. I just got a widescreen notebook and was wondering if there was an app that helps me better utilize the screen space by dividing it into 2 to 4 separate sections. So far Acer's Gridvista is all I've found but incidentally, you can still use it on non-acer notebooks (so long as you have similar graphics chipsets I guess)? Let me know if you find any other software. Thanks.

 

Right now, I'm using an Acer Travelmate with a resolution of 1680 x 1050. Acer GridVista can simulate several screens but what I miss is resizable screens. As it is now, the screens have equal width.

I'd like to run a big virtual screen for all "full size" programs such as browsers, file managers, pdf-reader, MS Office (full height & 80% of the available width) and one or two small ones for ICQ, Skype, Windows Live Messenger (20% of the available width).

Is there any software that allows resizable screens?
I've googeled for multiple screens, multiple desktops, virtual desktops, split screens,... without succes.

;o)
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I don't find much use for Gridvista on the smallish laptop widescreens. Much more useful for me is to install and use the free Windows XP Powertool for multiple desktops you can switch to at will.

 

http://lifehacker.com/software/productivity/download-of-the-day-gridmove-windows-199404.php

Gridmove.

 

YESSSSS!
http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=357&pgno=4

I downloaded ZoneSize (before I noticed the GridMove recommendation). It took some time to get the settings right as I used "." in stead of "," but now it w rks!

Windows Live Messenger refuses to snap to it though, but that is something I can bear.


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It looks like SplitView will do all this for you.

Check it out at http://www.splitview.com

SplitView can divide the screen into an arbitrary number of parts, and you can move windows to the four sides, four correns, half screen, etc, using simple keyboard shortcuts(Windows key + the arrow keys). It is betterr than GridVista in that you are not stuck with screen layouts, but can easily choose to avail the screen partitioning (or not) depending on the keystrokes, or using the SplitView buttons.

 

I just took a quick look at SplitView and I got the impression that you can't define the size of your virtual screens, which is not possible with AcerGrid either.

ZoneSize lets you divide your screen exactly as you want though! It allows an unlimited amount of screens, overlapping or not.
To resize a window to fit automatically, just draw it onto the virtual screen of your choice while holding the left mouse button pressed down (you can set the press down time in your settings).
Size of this wonderful little program: 212kb!