MinimizerFinder

One of Microsoft’s flagship desktop operating system’s greatest strengths is its compatibility with a broad range of programs designed for prior versions in an effort to support corporate, governmental and educational use-cases, an advantage that trickles down to the average user as well.

However, not all apps are equally or perfectly executed, with some displaying anomalous behavior depending on the users’ setup. As such, for those situations in which older or newer programs tend to stay on top of your legacy video game that does not support the full-screen windowed mode, a useful utility known as MinimizerFinder comes into play.

Once downloaded, double-clicking on the program’s executable instantly brings up an initially unassuming terminal window that lists the precise location of the applications that the user interacts with, thus providing the necessary insight for further troubleshooting or terminating the processes in question, if necessary.

Some apps can malfunction, leaving behind multiple invisible windows that could stay on top of other running programs, making it difficult for the user to identify them if they happen to reside in the background, while searching for them in the Task Manager aimlessly may prove to be a rather difficult challenge.

As a result, MinimizerFinder seeks to point the user in the direction of either misbehaving pieces of software, or unresponsive overlay-based programs, such as system monitoring tools, frame counters and performance meters that could require closing before proceeding with a legacy video game title.

Whether your older game lacks support for a windowed full-screen option that lets you interact with other opened programs without minimizing it, or you want to find out which application left behind an unresponsive overlay or window on top of your desktop’s foreground, MinimizerFinder could be a step in the right direction, especially given its lightweight memory footprint and portable form factor that makes it easy to carry on-the-go when troubleshooting tech-related issues as part of the IT personnel.