(If you don’t feel like snapping a second window, just press Esc or click anywhere except on one of those thumbnails. In Figure 3-21, for example, we’ve just snapped a File Explorer window to the right side of the screen and now have a choice of four other running windows to snap opposite it. As soon as you let go of the title bar, the window snaps into its position and Windows helpfully offers thumbnails for all other open windows to help you choose what to run alongside your first snapped window. You might want to compare two Word documents, move files between the Documents folder and an archive, or do financial research in a web browser and plug the numbers into an Excel spreadsheet.ĭrag a window title bar to the left or right edge of the screen, and it snaps to fill that half of the display. The simplest window-snapping scenario is a PC with a single display, where you want to arrange two windows side by side. These have been around for several Windows versions, but Windows 10 adds some extremely useful new tricks to the old familiar methods.
The most useful trick is a collection of “snap” techniques. Windows 10 includes a host of keyboard shortcuts and mouse gestures that greatly simplify the everyday tasks of resizing, moving, minimizing, arranging, and otherwise managing windows.
