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Wanted to make something to replace seemingly dead GridMove (http:\u002F\u002Fjgpaiva.dcmembers.com\u002Fgridmove.html). Current version basically reimplements GridMove's…",{"value":54,"source":55,"evidence":56},"Windows power users and developers","inferred",[57,58],{"id":51,"by":11,"text":52},{"id":59,"by":60,"text":61},"14185476","amygdyl","Hallo Author! Can I just say, it's worth easily ten bucks a copy, to me, to have the baseline settings configurable by group policy. Super product useful for power users and…",{"value":63,"source":48,"evidence":64},"Free now; paid version planned around $3",[65],{"id":51,"by":11,"text":52},{"value":67,"source":48,"evidence":68},"GridMove appears dead, so the maker wanted a replacement",[69],{"id":51,"by":11,"text":52},[71,77],{"value":72,"source":55,"evidence":73},"C#",[74],{"id":75,"by":11,"text":76},"14182215","Wow, that's a really long comment. Stack is not open source, however, some libs are (though only non-window management related). 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