AltSnap

AltSnap is a fork of AltDrag, a tiny utility that enables you to manage your applications’ windows, regardless of their position on the screen, while holding the Alt key. The aforementioned system is specific for Linux and Windows users can benefit from the same convenience.

The application comes with an installer and a portable version, so it’s up to you whether you want to install it. While it does not come with an interface, the app and its settings can be accessed from the System Tray. More precisely, you can enable and disable it as convenient, elevate and customize the overall behavior of the tool.

As far as the configuration goes, you can customize the mouse primary and secondary buttons, keyboard, add various processes to blacklist, windows that should be ignored as well as processes to be paused or killed. The Advanced settings enable you to run multiple instances of the app, maximize windows automatically when changing the monitor, restore the window size via a single click or invert shift behavior for double-clicking aero snapping, just to name a few.

Although a fork of AltDrag, there are some differences worth mentioning. For starters, the Hook window, meaning the one that allowed you to have window snapping, is no longer present. According to the developer, the removal was due to the fact that it required injecting a DLL in every app, which can raise various security reasons. The other feature that was removed is the focus on typing.

In the eventuality that you are a power user and prefer to handle most things about the computer via commands and hotkeys, then AltSnap might be worth a try. Although the tool seems to be addressing advanced users, the overall simplicity of its functionality makes it a suitable choice for less tech savvy users as well.