WindowTangler

Since the computer invaded most domains of activity, chances are your daily routine involves spending time in front of a PC all day. This can mean working with an abundance of windows, which become difficult to handle, especially on a single monitor. Luckily, you can use specialized applications like WindowTangler to create groups and easily toggle visibility.

The configuration panel shows up directly on launch, but the core function of the application activates as well. You can view all active windows in an organized list with info headers for window title and process name, with the list updating in real time.

Multiple sections are available and accessed through tabs. As such, the press of a button can display visible windows, hidden ones, window groups, hotkeys, as well as visibility timers. The application doesn’t automatically resize or reposition windows, but it does provide quite the flexibility in window management even though plain visibility toggle.

Windows can be hidden in several ways. The default mode is to operate them from the main window, but this can be pretty lengthy. A more efficient method is to assign hotkeys for different operations. This can mean hiding the active window, or all of them, as well as creating visibility toggle keys for entire groups of windows.

The application comes with a decent list of preset groups, each associated to a particular type. These include web browsers, graphics programs, media players, or explorer windows. On the bright side, you’re free to add more or edit existing ones by simply writing tags for the program to read either to target the window process or title.

Taking everything into consideration, we can say that WindowTangler manages to live up to expectations, begin a reliable method of managing an abundance of windows in a crowded desktop. Hotkey commands add a lot of comfort to the whole operation, with methods to target single windows or entire groups at once.