The Old New Thing

Rogue feature: Docking a folder at the edge of the screen

September 12, 2012 Sep 12, 2012 09/12/12

Raymond Chen

Starting in Windows 2000 and continuing through Windows Vista, you could drag a folder out of Explorer and slam it into the edge of the screen. When you let go, it docked itself to that edge of the screen like a toolbar. A customer noticed that this stopped working in Windows 7 and asked, "Was this feature dropped in Windows&...