I received several questions about the mysterious 4th button in the title-bar of my screenshots. It is time to shed some light on it.

SoftwareI’ve been suffering under Microsoft’s non-existant window-management while using only one screen  for nearly a decade so I decided it was time to look for some tool which puts a window always on top. After trying a gazillion who all promised relief, it was the open-source-tool Filebox eXtender, which helped me to sleep straight through the nights again. It helps you cluttering your title-bars even more, by (optionally) adding buttons with the following functions to it:

• keep window always on top
• roll-up the window
• a list of recently used folders
• a list with self-determined shortcuts, folder or files

There is a load of options for each of these functions, so you can spice it up to your taste.

Only the always on top thing appealed to me, because Windows 7 already comes with the folder-stuff on board and I’m not a big fan of the roll-up-feature.

Attention: The additional icons might be misplaced in some applications like the Office 2007-Suite, but overall they’re most of the time at the right spot.

I would like to pin a window via keyboard-shortcut, but am too not willing time to include that feature on my own. So if anyone knows a tool which can do this AND displays a nice always-on-top-icon in the title-bar I would be all for it.

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