{"id":17283,"date":"2009-07-30T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2009\/07\/30\/how-do-i-quickly-position-two-windows-side-by-side-using-only-the-keyboard\/"},"modified":"2009-07-30T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T10:00:01","slug":"how-do-i-quickly-position-two-windows-side-by-side-using-only-the-keyboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20090730-01\/?p=17283","title":{"rendered":"How do I quickly position two windows side by side using only the keyboard?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>alexx is looking for a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2009\/07\/28\/9850416.aspx#9852298\"> keyboard-only equivalent to the ctrl+click trick I mentioned a few days ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ctrl+Shift+Esc: This opens Task Manager. <\/li>\n<li>From the <i>Applications<\/i> tab, use     Ctrl+Space to select the two windows you want. <\/li>\n<li>Alt+W (open the <i>Windows<\/i> menu) <\/li>\n<li>V (Tile <u>V<\/u>ertically) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> Not as quick, but it still works. And it works <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2009\/07\/28\/9850416.aspx#9851579\"> even if the windows you want got converted into a group<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> Of course, on Windows&nbsp;7, you can use the Win+Left and Win+Right hotkeys. (Users with multiple monitors can <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2009\/07\/28\/9850416.aspx#9851429\"> couple this with Win+Shift+Left and Win+Shift+Right<\/a>.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>alexx is looking for a keyboard-only equivalent to the ctrl+click trick I mentioned a few days ago. Ctrl+Shift+Esc: This opens Task Manager. From the Applications tab, use Ctrl+Space to select the two windows you want. Alt+W (open the Windows menu) V (Tile Vertically) Not as quick, but it still works. And it works even if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-17283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-tipssupport"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>alexx is looking for a keyboard-only equivalent to the ctrl+click trick I mentioned a few days ago. Ctrl+Shift+Esc: This opens Task Manager. From the Applications tab, use Ctrl+Space to select the two windows you want. Alt+W (open the Windows menu) V (Tile Vertically) Not as quick, but it still works. And it works even if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}