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- Run the game in windowed fullscreen mode
- Put your stream/legally obtained video in "theater" mode and make the window as large as you like
- Force the video window to be on top with this app.
- maximum gains
I don't know if there's a native way to do this in Win10 but I've been using this little utility for years to accomplish the same thing. Put it in the startup folder so it runs at login and Ctrl+Space becomes a shortcut to sticky or unsticky windows over each other. You can do multiple layers too, which is really nice.
The download is a little ways down this page. I didn't want to link directly to the zip.
Hi, this is a great follow up.
I'll add that if you are stuck with only one monitor and are struggling between windows, you can download a very small script that will place the preview window always on top (I constantly ask myself why this is not a feature in the software).
You may download the script from here: https://www.labnol.org/software/tutorials/keep-window-always-on-top/5213/
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Once you start it, you simply click on the preview window's title (it's important) and use the shortcut CTRL+SPACE BAR to place the window always on top ;)
you keep bns in full screen but the browser window just stays on top. focus is still on bns technically. use this ~~https://download.cnet.com/Always-On-Top/3000-12565_4-10674027.html~~
my bad actually this is the one i use. https://www.labnol.org/software/tutorials/keep-window-always-on-top/5213/ you just run it and hit ctrl+space on the window u wanna keep on top
I tried pinning SJT using Always on top and even that doesn't work. Is this not considered a window? Program works on 99% of windows except this. Love this program but really wish i could fullscreen games again.
I have been using Always-On-Top for a while now. It is a Auto Hotkey script made into an extremely light weight stand alone program. It doesn't need to be installed, just run the .exe file, select a window and press [Control] + [Space] to pin a window on top and one more time to release the window.
Here is the download link to the Zip file since it is a little hard to find the download link on the page.
You can already make FlipFlip "AlwaysOnTop", I will try and add an option for opacity so it can be overlayed on top of something else.
That said, you can always use PeekThrough and AlwaysOnTop to make any program an overlay.
What if you used an "always on top" program for whatever else you're working on, or just drag vs off the screen before compiling? Would that maybe work?
You can actually run this with autohotkey if you use that. The code is:
^SPACE:: Winset, Alwaysontop, , A
Or here's the link to an article which has a download link (I'm not linking directly to the download because that would feel sketchy)
There's another option you can do. "Always on top" is a property that all windows in the Windows OS can have, it's just that not every app gives you the option of setting this flag (i.e. VLC Player does but browsers do not). There's a 3rd party app that I use for this called "Window on Top" that let's you make any window sit on top of other apps (like the app that has focus) using a hotkey. You can't run Elite in fullscreen, but you can run in a borderless window which is functionally full screen but allows other apps to render as well. There are a few downsides to this approach, but most of them are minor except if you have a Crossfire or SLI setup because running Elite in anything other than "Fullscreen mode" means you can't use both cards.
https://www.labnol.org/software/tutorials/keep-window-always-on-top/5213/
From my understanding, you are looking for a program that woudl allow the popup player to be "always on top" of anything else that is open. Use the following from Labnol.
https://www.labnol.org/software/tutorials/keep-window-always-on-top/5213/