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Acer Vista Grid


Frank, one of gHacks’ readers pointed me in the direction of a great little tool called Acer Vista Grid:

…a freeware program I recently came across that I quite enjoy is Acer GridVista.  It allows you to split a monitor into multiple sections.  For example, I have my 17" split into two.  In one virtual pane I have the dissertation open on which I am working, and in the other I have the code or information that is relevant to the section I am writing.  It makes it easy to keep all your open windows tidy.  It is not as cool as actually having two monitors, but it would be especially useful if you had a 22" or larger.  If only I could afford it….

I tried it out and it really is extremely useful!

I’m getting pretty used to freeware extensions being pretty buggy, however this is rock solid and you shouldn’t find any issues whatsoever. It’s easy to use, works great and even looks okay, in fact it adds a couple extra buttons to the windows as you can see in the screenshot below:

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Not sure what it’s like in XP.




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7 Responses to “Acer Vista Grid”

  1. John says:

    Works great in XP as well

  2. Bullitt says:

    I’m glad you liked it Joshua. I run it on XP and it works well and looks good.

  3. Mike says:

    I use a different free app called Winsplit Revolution (http://www.winsplit-revolution.com/)

    It does what Acer Vista Grid does, plus more. Theres a lot more window position/size options and it has a really small footprint.

  4. Shontou says:

    Thanks Mike for the app.It’s great.

  5. james says:

    doesn’t work with chrome
    can’t split horizontally
    works with multi monitors though and Winsplit Revolution does not

  6. Ganesh says:

    Winsplit revolution, I guess, does more than this.

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