Portable Auto Window Manager

Designed as the portable counterpart of Auto Window Manager, Portable Auto Window Manager is a feather-light tool that gives you control over the windows of any applications you have installed, in order to make them launch minimized to the taskbar or systray, for example.

Since it's not packed in a setup package, you can save the program files in a custom location on the hard drive and just double-click the .exe to launch the utility. Otherwise, you can copy it to a USB flash drive to be able to run it on any PC effortlessly. No modifications are made to the Windows registry in this regard.

As far as the GUI is concerned, Portable Auto Window Manager adopts a normal window with a neatly organized structure, where the window of each currently running program is displayed at startup automatically.

You can check out the window title and class name, along with the default automatic action and order. For each selected window, it's possible to set up rules about the next start action (e.g. maximize, minimize, normal, minimize to tray) and starting order (e.g. stay on top, normal).

Advanced users may examine window properties with the handle, process and thread IDs, together with window and extended styles. A window can be sent to the systray on the spot, made transparent, reordered on the desktop, as well as resized to any custom dimension, whether we're talking about a fixed size (pixels) or part of the desktop (percent).

When it comes to general options, you can ask the application to autorun at every Windows startup until further notice, add the system menu to other programs, as well as indicate next start and order actions for tools without any assigned rules. Moreover, you can set up rules in a separate area for apps which aren't currently running, provided that you know their exact class name.

Portable Auto Window Manager is equipped with advanced options for managing windows. It mostly caters to experienced PC users looking for enhanced control over their programs.