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I'm looking forward to the better window placement snaps. I plan on buying an ultra-widescreen monitor the day that work upgrades us to Windows 11. Manually pos

by pavon 2y ago

I'm looking forward to the better window placement snaps. I plan on buying an ultra-widescreen monitor the day that work upgrades us to Windows 11. Manually positioning windows for a monitor that size is frustrating in Windows 10, you pretty much have to disable all the snaps because they work against you snapping windows into undesired sizes if you come close to the edge of the screen. I hate all the advertising and spyware, so I'll never run Windows 11 at home, but we have a whole team dedicated to disabling that sort of stuff at work, so I don't have to think about it.

shmeeed 2y ago
Just ask them for Microsoft PowerToys, FancyZones is what you want.
gambiting 2y ago
Microsoft solved it on Windows 10 already with their own extension called PowerToys, it adds a really powerful window management extension to windows and it's completely free(plus a tonne of other very useful utilities). https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/fancyzones https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/fancyzon...
orionsbelt 2y ago
See if your work place will let you install PowerToys, which includes FancyZones. It’s a Microsoft power tool (not third party), so they might allow it, and it has much better window snapping.
wongarsu 2y ago
The better Window snapping is great. Explorer can open folders in a new tab instead of a new window. The snipping tool shortcut (win+shift+s) automatically saves screenshots you take, instead of showing a notification you have to click. The snipping tool can also record videos, can do OCR and can take delayed screenshots When I had the choice I still went back to Windows 10.
tdpvb 2y ago
But auto-stretching windows to the screen's height has somehow turned into a frustrating game of mousing over a 0.001 pixel sweet spot at the top of the window. Maybe there's a hotkey for it though.

by pavon 2y ago

shmeeed 2y ago

Just ask them for Microsoft PowerToys, FancyZones is what you want.

gambiting 2y ago

Microsoft solved it on Windows 10 already with their own extension called PowerToys, it adds a really powerful window management extension to windows and it's completely free(plus a tonne of other very useful utilities). https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/fancyzones https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/fancyzon...

orionsbelt 2y ago

See if your work place will let you install PowerToys, which includes FancyZones. It’s a Microsoft power tool (not third party), so they might allow it, and it has much better window snapping.

wongarsu 2y ago

The better Window snapping is great. Explorer can open folders in a new tab instead of a new window. The snipping tool shortcut (win+shift+s) automatically saves screenshots you take, instead of showing a notification you have to click. The snipping tool can also record videos, can do OCR and can take delayed screenshots When I had the choice I still went back to Windows 10.

tdpvb 2y ago

But auto-stretching windows to the screen's height has somehow turned into a frustrating game of mousing over a 0.001 pixel sweet spot at the top of the window. Maybe there's a hotkey for it though.