The Old New Thing

Why doesn't the Maximize button maximize across all monitors?

March 5, 2012 Mar 5, 2012 03/5/12

Raymond Chen

Cheong wonders why there isn't a way for the Maximize button to maximize a window across multiple monitors. (Troll asks a similar question: Why doesn't Windows support spanned mode for multiple monitors?) We tried it that way at first. And we quickly discovered why it was a bad idea. Wait, I'm not finished yet. Things get still worse if ...