DeskPins

DeskPins is a free, open-source application by Elias Fotinis that allows users to make any application the topmost application. This keeps pinned windows all the way forward while you are using other windows. Take a pin from the DeskPins icon and pin it to any window, making it your topmost window.

Features:

• limitless pins available
• handles application types intelligently
• wild-card based automatic pin support
• global hotkeys
• insignificant system resources usage

DeskPins adds an Always on Top function to any program window with a single click of a pin.

DeskPins is free software that uses very little system resources to make any of your applications the topmost application. This is useful for when you do not have a second monitor and need to have small bits of information available without switching between tabs and applications. DeskPins brings "Always on Top" functionality to any program you may use. DeskPins is intuitive to use. It is user-friendly and once launched stays in the Windows System Tray. This enables the user to grab pins easily to put applications on top.

To use, click the DeskPins icon in the Windows System Tray. Then grab a pin and drop it on any window you wish to make the topmost window. Pins can be easily removed. Just click the pin again to remove it. The pin color and tracking rate can be changed in the options.

Hotkeys work within DeskPins. It also gives the user the option to enable autopins: rules with wildcards that pin matching windows automatically after a short delay. Hotkeys can be used to enter the pin mode and to toggle the pin of the active window.

DeskPins works with most applications and application types. DeskPins works on several kinds of windows such as normal windows, skinned windows, or a DOS command window. It has been found that DeskPins does not always work on newer applications such as Groove Music in Windows 10. Version 1.32 fixed autopinning of windows that belong to 64-bit processes, while the older 1.30 build is still offered for Windows 9x.