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hmm, my laptop's bottom half of the screen just conked out (dead screen, replaced by color gradient). I have a smaller monitor I can unpack and hook up to it, but given laziness I'm currently just moving everything up to the portion of the screen that can still be rendered. And then I thought - hey - there should be some sort of AutoHotkey script out there that allows me to manage windows in some ways to take advantage of this situation (or if take advantage of is not quite the right word, make somewhat bearable)

So, in a situation where your screen is a normaly approx 1000 high, but has been cut to 700 with the lower third of the screen just showing a rainbow of colors that keeps everything down there hidden, what hacks would you do? (no, the answer should not be fix the screen, tap it a bit, buy a new laptop. I mean something with AutoHotkey possibilities that could be made to fit such a situation)

Have you tried changing resolution from display properties, though that might not help unless you also have the option to align it to top-right corner (with my desktop monitor I had that option, so maybe you can do it with a laptop too)...

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Hardware: 1.8 GHz laptop with 4 GB ram, Windows XP/SP3
Software: Prevx, Privatefirewall, KeyScrambler.

Here's a simple attempt:

I thought of a non-AutoHotkey option too. I assume it's already occurred to you that you can move your Task Bar top the top of the screen, but you could instead keep it at the bottom but stretch it out until it's just a little taller then the broken area. That would keep most apps from occupying that space. The windows Magnifier tool could also be used for that purpose.

I hadn't thought of moving the taskbar up because I can't actually grab ahold of the taskbar and move it, although now that I think of it there are probably some registry settings that can be jiggered to do that - so that is interesting.

Just to clarify the situation it seems to be some sort of weird liquid display damage, except it only affects the lower third of the screen and is a single rectangle of multi colored lines stretching across the bottom of the screen. Obviously I am going to have it replaced tomorrow (maybe retired this laptop to media manager around the house) but I found it interesting.
Due to whatever error I am experiencing I now have an extremely irregularly shaped display. It strikes me as an interesting opportunity to play around with the monitor space I have left on this display.

Also the colors on the bottom are quite nice to look at.

Don't just chuck your laptop away if just the screen is damaged. You can still plug it into an external monitor and use it as a desktop replacement or as a power-friendly home server for downloads or media.

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