SheepDog

A large screen or resolution is not always enough to make window management a walk in the park. Chances are some new windows show up, but because of the number of existing windows it goes off-screen. Luckily, SheepDog is a small application which can retrieve those off-screen windows which can’t be manually moved.

A cool advantage here is portability, allowing you to keep a copy on a thumb drive to use the application regardless of the computer you’re working on. The only thing you need to make sure is for the target PC to be equipped with .NET Framework, because it’s a mandatory requirement for functionality.

The application goes to the tray area on launch, with no prompt to inform you of this action. You can easily identify it by the corresponding icon, and accessing the options window lets you change the icon in case you want to give it a personal feel. There’s also a button to use the default icon again.

Functionality is straightforward, and any window caught just a little off-screen is brought back into plain sight. On the one hand, window size is not affected in any way, which comes in handy if you’re particularly picky about it.

All windows brought back in sight are placed in the upper left side of the screen stacked on top of eachother. Even though it’s only a minor inconvenience, it could have used options to specify the return location, or force the window to fit in some available desktop space.

One way to bring back windows is to interact with the tray icon. On the other hand, the options menu makes it possible, and easy to assign a new hotkey command, so you don’t have to rely on the tray icon.

Taking everything into consideration, we can say that SheepDog is sure to come in handy to prevent losing any work by forcefully restarting a particular application just to bring its window in plain sight. It quietly sits in the tray area, and can be triggered through hotkeys for maximum comfort.