Any programs that will unroll and roll windows like a shade?

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Ant - 17 Mar 2008 05:17 GMT

Hello!

I used to use WinShade and FreeShade in older Windows. However, they
don't work very well in XP Pro. SP2. Are there any other freeware
programs that can roll up and roll down my windows with double clicking
on the menu bar (doesn't maximize and restore like default Windows
behavior)?

Thank you in advance. :)

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Bob I - 17 Mar 2008 16:26 GMT

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=XP+windowblinds+free&btnG=Google+Search

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Ant - 18 Mar 2008 05:10 GMT

Ah, I don't want to use the bloated Window Blind from Stardock. I don't
need to decorate my GUIs. Just a roll up and down like a real windows
shade. Mac OS X (a third party) and Linux (KDE3) can do this. :)

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> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=XP+windowblinds+free&btnG=Google+Search
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>> Thank you in advance. :)

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Ricky - 18 Mar 2008 12:35 GMT

Have a look at this.. http://www.palma.com.au/winroll/

> Ah, I don't want to use the bloated Window Blind from Stardock. I don't
> need to decorate my GUIs. Just a roll up and down like a real windows
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>>> Thank you in advance. :)

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Ant - 18 Mar 2008 14:47 GMT

Thanks. Will check it out later.

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> Have a look at this.. http://www.palma.com.au/winroll/
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Ant - 19 Mar 2008 17:30 GMT

Great program, Ricky. Too bad it's old and my middle button doesn't seem
to do anything on two XP Pro. SP2 machines.

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> Have a look at this.. http://www.palma.com.au/winroll/
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Avi Greenbury - 20 Mar 2008 11:15 GMT

> Ah, I don't want to use the bloated Window Blind from Stardock. I don't
> need to decorate my GUIs. Just a roll up and down like a real windows
> shade. Mac OS X (a third party) and Linux (KDE3) can do this. :)

AFAIK, Windows is/has the only window manager that doesn't.

Somewhere, I saw a project to port X11 to Win32...
Not going to be massively efficient, since it runs on top of the full
Windows OS, but it'd probably get you shading.

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Ant - 22 Mar 2008 06:18 GMT

On 3/20/2008 3:15 AM PT, Avi Greenbury typed:

>> Ah, I don't want to use the bloated Window Blind from Stardock. I don't
>> need to decorate my GUIs. Just a roll up and down like a real windows
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> Not going to be massively efficient, since it runs on top of the full
> Windows OS, but it'd probably get you shading.

Yeah, that's too much there. WinRoll is good enough. Thanks. :)

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