Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware

There are plenty of ways to make an application stay "always on top" in Windows. But DeskPins is one of the simplest, most useful solutions I've seen in a while.

Here's how it works. Say you're watching a video and you want your media player to be visible no matter what other programs you're working in. Just click the DeskPins icon in the system tray to pick up a pushpin, and click on your media player to pin it to the top. Now any other windows you open will be tucked away behind your media player.

You can still minimize pinned programs to the system tray when you don't want to look at them. And unpinning them is as simple as clicking the pin that shows up at the top of the window. One of the reasons I like DeskPins is because it makes it simple to see at a glance whether a program is pinned or not.

DeskPins also has an Autopin feature that lets you automatically pin certain applications whenever they're opened. You cna also enable hotkeys that let you place a pin without clicking on the system tray icon first.

[via CyberNet]

DeskPins adds an "always on top" thumbtack to any Windows app originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 21 May 2009 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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