WindowsLayoutSnapshot

Ever switched monitor configurations on your laptop and all of your windows are squished down in size and in the wrong position? Ever unplugged from docking station with multiple monitors to go to a meeting? Ever wanted to minimize all windows but save their layouts and min-max'ed states for later?

WindowsLayoutSnapshot is a windows app to remember and restore window sizes and positions.

There's not installer. After Building (below) you can just put it in your Startup folder.

The app takes a "snapshot" of your windows layouts every thirty minutes. You can see the list of snapshots when you click on the tray menu icon.

Features

• When there are many stored snapshots, all very recent ones are shown, plus more spaced-out but distant past snapshots.
• Automatically taken snapshots are shown in normal text. Manually taken snapshots (Take Snapshot) command are shown in bold.
• As you mouse over each snapshot, it is restored, so it's easy to find the layout you want.
• Snapshots keep track of, and restore, the "normal size" of windows even if they're currently minimized or maximized.
• This app makes sure all windows fit inside a currently-visible display when restoring snapshots. Because of that, if you ever have a window that's off-screen because of a bug in other software, just restore the "(Just now)" snapshot.
• On a dual/multi-monitor setup a snapshot is taken before display power down (due to energy saving settings) and automatically restored after wakeup. This works around a specific issue I've had with my installation. After wakeup, window positions get restored correctly across the monitors.

Pitfalls

• Snapshots are not stored across app instances (or, thus, restarts).

Screenshot

Building

Unfortunately there aren't any current release binaries. To build the WindowsSnap.exe:

• Install Visual Studio 2017*
• install DotNet 4.8 developer pack*
• clone or download WindowsSnap sources
• run VS and open WindowsSnap.sln
• answer yes to any prompts to install needed components
• Reinstall nuget packages in VS: Tools >> Nuget Package Manager >> console
  Update-Package -reinstall
• run Build (ctrl-shift-B)

Run WindowsLayoutSnapshot\WindowsSnap\bin\x64\Debug\WindowsSnap.exe and look in system tray for the icon. :)

* Installing the build tools

Quick install recipe using Chocolatey package manager:

choco install visualstudio2017buildtools
choco install visualstudio2017-workload-manageddesktopbuildtools
choco install netfx-4.8-devpack

License

See LICENSE file.