i've just found an incredibly cool bit of development software from microsoft called 'Scalable Fabric' basically it lets you drag your active window to the side of your screen, where it automatically resizes it to a thumbnail, freeing up your workspace..click on it and it restores.... this link is to the info page on experimental microsoft software Link and this is the link to the direct download page Link once i downloaded it, i renamed the file to scalable.msi, then installed...

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