Hot Corners Contents
Hot Corners  version 1.5

Use

Hot Corners will allow you to assign actions to each of the four corners of your screen.  There are many preferences you can set to control how Hot Corners will work for you.

See also

Original settings

Selecting actions to corners of your screen

Preferences

Settings for Microsoft mouse version 9.0

Registration


Original Settings

When you first install Hot Corners each corner has the following actions:

Top Left

Starts File Manager.

Top Right

Checks to see if Calculator is already running.  If so, it will bring it up.  If not, it will activate a new Calculator program.

Lower Left

Starts your Screen Saver if you have one set via your control panel.

Lower Right

Starts Notepad.


Select Actions
Selecting actions to corners of your screen

Open the Hot Corners window and click on one of the buttons to assign an action to that corner.

Program, Screen Saver, Inactive.

Each corner can be one of these actions.  Program will start any windows or DOS program or activate a running program.  Screen Saver will start the screen saver you set from your Control Panel.  Inactive will disable this corner.

Description

This is the text you see on the button showing in the Hot Corner window.  You have a maximum of 11 characters to enter.

Command Line

This is the full path program name to run.  Either type in the name yourself or click on the browse button to see a dialog you can use to find the program name.

Working Directory

The working directory while that program is running.

Run Minimized

If this box is checked the program will start as an icon.

Activate Title

Check this box and then enter up to 19 characters in the field next to it.  Hot Corners will search all the programs currently running and look for the characters you entered in their title.  The characters you enter do not need to be at the beginning of the title.   Hot Corners will check for the characters exactly as you key them.  Upper and lower case lettering is important.  If Hot Corners does not find those characters in any window it will start the program you entered in the Command Line field.

Example

Browse

Click on this button to browse your system for programs to assign.


Preferences

Click on the Option menu then click on Preferences to view this dialog.

See Resource Information

When this option is checked Hot Corners will monitor your system's usage of resources.  You will see a tile with "U99 G99 M9999" The number after U is the percent of free User resources. The number after G is the number of free GDI resources.  And the number after M is the amount of free memory.   When this check is off the title will be "Hot Corners".

Alternate Mouse Dbl Click

When this option is checked the alternate mouse will perform an action if you double click on the minimized program with the mouse.  You can have the action either be to exit windows or start your screen saver.

Require Mouse Down

When this option is checked you must have one of the mouse buttons down while your mouse is in the corner of the screen.

Hot Spot

Click on the up and down arrows of the scroll bar to change the size of the hot spot on your screen.  The Hot spot is the area your mouse needs to be in for the program to start.  The red area in the little window is the actual size of the hot spot you've selected.

Speed

This setting will adjust how fast Hot Corners runs.  The fastest setting only requires you to have the mouse in the corner of the screen for 1/10 a second.  The slowest setting requires you to have the mouse there about 2 seconds. Click the mouse on either the faster or slower arrow to control this setting.


Microsoft Mouse v9.0
Settings for Microsoft mouse version 9.0

If you are using Microsoft mouse version 9.0 and use screen scrolling I suggest you turn on the require mouse down option and set a large hot spot.  This way you do not need to move the mouse too close to the edge of the screen where it will jump to the other side.

See Also

Preferences


User Resources
User Resources are a limited amount of memory used for displaying your windows and menus.  The number shown is the percent unused.


GDI Resources
GDI Resources are a limited amount of memory used for displaying bitmaps and other graphics in Windows.  The number shown is the percent unused.


Memory
Memory will show the amount of memory Windows has available.  This includes the space on your hard disk Windows may be using as memory.  The number shown is the amount of memory in kilobytes (1,024 bytes).


Registration

Registration for Task List ++ and Hot Corners is combined.

Send $10.00 to

Ken Walters

4914 243rd ST. SW

Mountlake Terrace, WA  98043

USA

You'll receive the most recent copies of the software plus other utilities and screen savers with registration.


Example of Activate Title
Suppose you want to assign Calculator to one or your corners.  You may use this many times during the day but only ever need one copy running at a time.  In the command line enter the path of the program "C:\WINDOWS\CALC.EXE".

Check the Activate Title box and enter "Calculator" in the field next to it.   Hot Corners will search your system for a window with the characters "Calculator" anywhere in its title.  If it finds a match it will show you the window without starting a new one.  If a match is not found Hot Corners will start calculator for you.  Remember you must key the Activate Title field exactly as it appears in the window title.  If you keyed "calculator" (lower case "c") Hot Corners would start a new copy every time you move the mouse to that corner.