Windows 7. Hideously annoying window maximise feature.

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Skirrow

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So i adore the windows 7 beta. Much better than Vista which never got on well with my pc, though it does have its problems. The main one being the following.

Everytime i move a window near the top edge of the screen, Windows automatically maximises the window. This is REALLY annoying in Photoshop, Corel Painter X and every other program where i use a custom UI layout. Same thing when arranging windows in general. Really annoying and i havent been able to find a way of turning this 'feature' off.

Anyone know how this is done?
 
Skirrow said:
So i adore the windows 7 beta. Much better than Vista which never got on well with my pc, though it does have its problems. The main one being the following.

Everytime i move a window near the top edge of the screen, Windows automatically maximises the window. This is REALLY annoying in Photoshop, Corel Painter X and every other program where i use a custom UI layout. Same thing when arranging windows in general. Really annoying and i havent been able to find a way of turning this 'feature' off.

Anyone know how this is done?
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I haven't tried turning it off and I don't have my Windows 7 machine with me right now but Google "Aero Snap" and you may find something.

Actually just Googled it quickly myself. Looks like the setting for "animate windows when minimizing and maximizing" disables Aero Snap. I don't have access to neowin.net here at work though because of the dumb Proxy server so I can't read the posts directly.
 
Cheers, you're right, it is the Aero Snap feature. I had a look and tried disabling it using that method but it didnt work. Looks like there isn't a known way to disable it yet, or at least not that i could find on google. :(
 
Aero Snap only kicks in if you actually put the precise tip of the cursor (the one single pixel that defines the "pointer" itself) at the very edge of the screen, so... it doesn't happen just because you move the title bar close to the edge, as I just tried it several times.

Yeah, you can disable it but, it's such a useful feature now... it's even better when you grab the top edge of the window (not the title bar) and then drag that to the top - and again, the actual pixel-tip of the cursor has to hit the edge for it to kick in - which vertically maximizes a window from top to bottom of the screen. Very useful tools...

The most obvious solution is be more precise in terms of where you're grabbing the window's title bar when you move it. Aero Snap won't kick in till you're precisely at the edge of the screen with that one specific pixel... it's quite exact nowadays, there's no "zone" with the pointer this time.

And I just noticed that if you do drag a title bar just slightly off the edge of the screen at the top, it'll "snap" back so it's on the edge and not offscreen... pretty handy.
 
Joe Average said:
And I just noticed that if you do drag a title bar just slightly off the edge of the screen at the top, it'll "snap" back so it's on the edge and not offscreen... pretty handy.
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so much for hiding windows off-screen then?

i could see that being useful and a pain at the same time...
 
Haste266 said:
so much for hiding windows off-screen then?

i could see that being useful and a pain at the same time...
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No, you can still do that. As previously mentioned, Aero Snap doesn't kick in unless your actual cursor is at the edge of the screen. You can still drag most of a window off-screen.
 
Arainach said:
No, you can still do that. As previously mentioned, Aero Snap doesn't kick in unless your actual cursor is at the edge of the screen. You can still drag most of a window off-screen.
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ah, ok. thanks
 
Just not at the top... :)

You can drag it down to the bottom and leave pretty much just the "border" on the window edge (along the top) visible, but as for totally absolutely "hiding" a window totally off a single monitor, nah, can't do that... why would you? :D
 
Joe Average said:
Just not at the top... :)

You can drag it down to the bottom and leave pretty much just the "border" on the window edge (along the top) visible, but as for totally absolutely "hiding" a window totally off a single monitor, nah, can't do that... why would you? :D
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heheh, i am aware u can't completely hide a window...but u can always hide it in the corner behind the taskbar...

i dunno why i would need to do that, copying porn at a lan party? :p
 
Haste266 said:
heheh, i am aware u can't completely hide a window...but u can always hide it in the corner behind the taskbar...

i dunno why i would need to do that, copying porn at a lan party? :p
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But if you're at a LAN party and the pr0n is on the LAN, everybody already has it... so why the hiding? See how silly that sounds? :D
 
Joe Average said:
But if you're at a LAN party and the pr0n is on the LAN, everybody already has it... so why the hiding? See how silly that sounds? :D
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heheh. i know, but when its against the lan party's policy...gotta watch it!
 
Yes, it is irritating. I end up with maximized windows all the time. I just have to be more careful with moving them around.
 
It seems like a useless feature anyway. Double-clicking the title bar is faster and requires less mouse movement.
 
I don't find dragging a window up to the top to maximize it nearly as useful as dragging them to the left or right edges. It's nice for when you need a couple things side by side.
 
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