Microsoft details Windows 10 window snapping and positioning

[HEXUS]

Features are meant to help you avoid fiddling with sizes and positions of windows.

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[Saracen]

With this in mind Microsoft is aiming to help you "be more productive by reducing the amount of effort it takes to manage your window layouts".

Uhhh huh.

Well, call me cynical (and I'm sure someone will) but my experience of such "assistance" to "help" my productivity often has the effect of driving me nuts by "helpfully" positioning something where I don't want it.

So my first question is whether such features can be turned off, if the user wishes. Hopefully, they can.

My ambivalence to Win10 isn't exactly a secret, but that's not my reservation with this. If is works to help me, great. If I don't like it, can I turn it off?

Do MS give US the choice, or like the Start menu issue, are they deciding they know best again?

[shaithis]

All sounds good to me. I just need to figure out how to change the settings on the feature that makes my mouse stop between monitors when dragging a window from one screen to the other........

[scaryjim]

Multi-monitor users will also be glad to hear that shared edges or corners between monitors can now be taken into account by Microsoft's snapping algorithms as detailed above.

About frikkin' time! Wish they could roll this down to Win 7 in a service pack - it'll be a long while before my employer shifts everyone up to Win 10 (it's only in the last year or so that they've really pushed people onto Win 7!), and there's nothing more annoying than snapping a window to one half of my screen then having to manually fiddle the other one until it takes up the remaining space...

[nitro912gr]

sounds good, with windows snapping on 7 it was the first time that I felt that working with windows and not with macos was better for my productivity.

I think that windows are on a good track and that they win me back slowly after years of preference for the MacOSX

[idris]

You've always been able to snap windows to half the screen by using the windows key R left/right cursor keys...

[idris]

Correction to my typo:
You've always been able to snap windows to half the screen by using the windows key & left/right cursor keys…

[nitro912gr]

Correction to my typo:
You've always been able to snap windows to half the screen by using the windows key & left/right cursor keys…

well the truth is that before win7 there where other problems with windows that made me not to like them

[shaithis]

You've always been able to snap windows to half the screen by using the windows key R left/right cursor keys...

Yes but you could not drag to the side of a monitor that extends onto another. These changes standardise the gestures and adds some needed new ones.

[Pleiades]

Doesn't snap perfectly on my Build 10130, there's a slight overlap of the 2 halves, or is it meant to be like that?

[tribaljet]

These sort of features have historically been optional, either from OS UI performance settings or taskbar settings, so I see no reason why they wouldn't be on either place this time as well.

It's actually interesting since I do use 3rd party software on some machines to do these (and more) exact same UI management steps, but it's welcome to see them made available as an option.

[GuidoLS]

Uhhh huh.

Well, call me cynical (and I'm sure someone will) but my experience of such "assistance" to "help" my productivity often has the effect of driving me nuts by "helpfully" positioning something where I don't want it.

So my first question is whether such features can be turned off, if the user wishes. Hopefully, they can.

My ambivalence to Win10 isn't exactly a secret, but that's not my reservation with this. If is works to help me, great. If I don't like it, can I turn it off?

Do MS give US the choice, or like the Start menu issue, are they deciding they know best again?

On and off buttons, all offered from a top menu selector.

[Saracen]

On and off buttons, all offered from a top menu selector.

Good news. I can cross that off my list of questions. Thanks.

[devBunny]

With this in mind Microsoft is aiming to help you "be more productive by reducing the amount of effort it takes to manage your window layouts".

Uhhh huh.

Well, call me cynical (and I'm sure someone will) but my experience of such "assistance" to "help" my productivity often has the effect of driving me nuts by "helpfully" positioning something where I don't want it.

Lol. I quite agree. Where was this functionality way back whenever? AutoHotkey and StrokeIt have done all my multi-monitor/multi-zone window positioning very handily for ages and I don't want Microsoft messing it up with their decades late "Hey, let's be really cool and provide window positioning in our so-called 'Windows' product!".

We may have to share the cynicism prize. ;-)

[Wozza63]

Multi-monitor users will also be glad to hear that shared edges or corners between monitors can now be taken into account by Microsoft's snapping algorithms as detailed above.

About frikkin' time! Wish they could roll this down to Win 7 in a service pack - it'll be a long while before my employer shifts everyone up to Win 10 (it's only in the last year or so that they've really pushed people onto Win 7!), and there's nothing more annoying than snapping a window to one half of my screen then having to manually fiddle the other one until it takes up the remaining space...

Windows + Left or Windows + Right key combinations work just fine, and keep pressing the arrows to cycle through all the positions across your screens.