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On 7 Dec 2004 23:58:40 -0800, "Thorsten Kettner"
<QUESTIONBYthorsten.kettner@otto.de> wrote:

>
>Hi all,
>I would like to write an app that starts two Windows Explorers,
>changes their sizes so that one covers the upper half of the 
>screen and the other the lower half. I would disble resizing and 
>moving of the windows. Then I would catch some of their events. 
>If one gets activated I bring the other to front, too. If one 
>gets closed I close the other, too.
>
>Now my qwestion: Is that possible? (So many complain that Windows
>Explorer opens just one window instead of two. But if it would be
>so easy to do what I intend, then why has nobody done that yet?)
>
>You see, I ask because I am not familiar with hooking events and
>deep Windows programming. If you say it's very hard or even
>impossible, I will be thankful and avoid the pain. :-)
>
>Thorsten.
I've seen software that does this before. WinBatch has some 
similar functionality.

It should not be very "deep" to activate two new explorer windows, and
use the API to move/size them. I'm not sure about the events.
hth
Jeff Kish