Swept Away is a simple system tray utility that will automatically minimize the applications that you aren't using.

If you don't like all of the distraction and clutter a desktop full of open windows and you don't minimize every window but the ones you're using, then don't. Now, rather than having to think about it, Swept Away will keeps your desktop clean for you.

What it does: Minimizes inactive windows after a user-defined period of time to keep your working desktop clear. Swept Away was inspired by the Mac-only SpiritedAway.

Usage: There's really nothing to it - just run Swept Away, set the Time before minimizing (it defaults to 300 seconds (i.e., 5 minutes). You can choose to have Swept Away run at startup through the preferences menu, but by default it will not start up with Windows.

There are some windows that you just don't want to minimize no matter how long they're inactive. To compensate, Swept Away has an exclusion list that lets you pick the applications you never want Swept Away to minimize.

To exclude a running application, just right-click the Swept Away icon and pick the application you want to exclude on the Exclude list. Unless you deselect it, Swept Away will never minimize windows from that application.

Swept Away is portable, so you can grab just the .exe here. It's also open source, so you can check out the source code here. Swept Away is written in Autohotkey.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Added a fix for right-click drag bug, added more program support, tweaked Explorer navigation.