Arrange your Windows in a Snap

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When we started designing Windows 10, we stuck with our original goal of helping you be more productive by reducing the amount of effort it takes to manage your window layouts. By allowing Store apps to run in a window, we gave ourselves more flexibility to blend the best of both Windows 7 and 8 for this new release. We also www.mcafee/activate considered how PC technology has changed mcafee.com/activate product key over the past few years. The proliferation of new large high resolution monitors, multi-monitor setups www.mcafee.com/activate, touch screens, and 2-in-1s have all had a significant impact www.mcafee.com/activate product key on how people interact with their PCs.

Snap Assist

One of the most popular Aero Snap features in Windows 7 is the ability to drag windows to the left or right edges of the screen to resize them to half  www.mcafee.com/activate download  the screen. This allows you to choose any two windows and easily snap them side-by-side—a very handy feature when drafting an email or comparison shopping, for example.

When arranging two windows side-by-side, we noticed in practice that this scenario frequently involved snapping the first window and then spending time wading through other windows on screen to find the second one to drag and snap www.mcafee.com/activate product key. This insight lead us to ask: instead of making mcafee.com/activate product key you hunt for the second window to snap, why not present a list of recently used windows up front? This is the fundamental idea behind Snap Assist in Windows 10.

Snap Assist significantly speeds up the process of snapping www.mcafee.com/activate download two windows side-by-side by offering you a choice of windows to snap. Through our Windows Insider Program, we’ve seen that 90% of the time, users have www.mcafee.com/activate product key chosen to take advantage of this improvement and pick the second app directly from Snap Assist rather www.mcafee.com/activate than hunting for it manually. Snap Assist also has a number of related benefits. For example, just like Task View, it makes it easier to use the desktop with touch and comes in handy as part of Continuum.

Corner Snap

When Windows 7 was released in 2009, 4K technology was in its infancy and splitting the screen in half satisfied most use cases, even with external monitors. Nowadays, 27” and larger monitors with 2560×1440 and 4K resolutions have become more popular and we want Windows to take full advantage of the increased mcafee.com/activate product key screen real estate.

For Windows 10, we explored a number of interaction models for creating more advanced window layouts. Ultimately, we built upon the success of snapping to edges by extending the gesture to work with corners www.mcafee.com/activate product key. To snap a window to www.mcafee/activate a quarter size of the monitor, just drag the window to a corner and let go. This design allows for some very powerful configurations. For example www.mcafee.com/activate, you can have four windows on screen at once, or two windows taking up a quarter of the screen and a third window www.mcafee.com/activate download taking up the remaining half.

Snap Fill

Snapping into perfect quarters or halves of the screen is useful, but sometimes optimal layouts aren’t necessarily symmetrical. You might want to make your browser window large and

windows showing your social feed or playing a video small. These kinds of tweaks typically take a number of mouse moves to accomplish to get everything just right. In Windows 8, side-by-side Store apps mcafee.com/activate product key automatically filled  www.mcafee.com/activate up the available space on screen without leaving any gaps www.mcafee.com/activate product key, making the most of available screen real estate.

In Windows 10, we wanted to bring this improvement to the desktop, making snapping more intelligent with any app. When you snap a window and resize it, the system takes note of your action. When you then snap www.mcafee.com/activate download a second window, the system will optimize its size to automatically fill up the available space www.mcafee.com/activate. It’s a subtle feature, but comes in handy when you snap a lot of windows or have complex layouts involving www.mcafee/activate a mix of half and quarter snapped windows.

Multi-Monitor Improvements

A lot of the improvements to snap are even more useful when dealing with multiple monitors. Imagine having a sophisticated snap layout of four windows on a single display and then another display with an entirely www.mcafee.com/activate product key different set of snapped windows. We’ve even made it easier to snap across multiple displays

. Previous versions of Windows didn’t allow you to snap along an edge shared by two monitors and you had to use keyboard www.mcafee/activate shortcuts instead. With Windows 10, you can www.mcafee.com/activate now drag a window to the shared edge or corner and snap just like you would expect. Finally, Snap Assist lets you mcafee.com/activate product key see all windows across all displays so that you can easily snap a second window by just selecting it. This means that if you want two www.mcafee.com/activate download windows on completely different screens snapped together, you no