Page 90 - Windows 10 May 2019 Update The Missing Manual: The Book That Should Have Been in the Box

If you have a big monitor, you might actually use this Windows 10 feature.

It lets you cram four windows into quadrants of your screen, neatly filling
every available pixel. You feel like you’re some kind of crazy day trader, or
maybe a security guard keeping an eye on all the cameras.

NOSTALGIA CORNER TURN OFF ALL THE SNAPPING
AND SHAKING

It’s cool how Windows makes a window snap against the top or side of

your screen. Right? It’s better than before, right?

It’s perfectly OK to answer, “I don’t think so. It’s driving me crazy. I
don’t want my operating system manipulating my windows on its own.”

In that case, you can turn off the snapping and shaking features. Open

the Start menu. Type enough of the word arrange until you see
“Arrange windows automatically by dragging them to the sides or

corners of the screen.” Select it. You’ve just opened the → →
System → Multitasking control panel.

Here you can turn off the snapping feature (“Arrange windows

automatically by dragging them to the sides or corners of the screen”),
the automatic resizing of a window (“When I snap a window,
automatically size it to fill available space”), multi-window resizing

(“When I resize a snapped window, simultaneously resize any adjacent
snapped window”), and Snap Assist (“When I snap a window, show
what I can snap next to it”).

From now on, windows move only when and where you move them.
(Shaking a window’s title bar doesn’t hide other windows now, either.
And, alas, the + and + keystrokes for Maximize and Restore

Down no longer work.)

Or, if you prefer, you can split the screen among three windows (25 percent,

25 percent, 50 percent).