{"id":17333,"date":"2009-07-28T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2009\/07\/28\/how-do-i-quickly-position-two-windows-side-by-side\/"},"modified":"2009-07-28T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T10:00:00","slug":"how-do-i-quickly-position-two-windows-side-by-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20090728-00\/?p=17333","title":{"rendered":"How do I quickly position two windows side by side?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commenter n\/a posted <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2006\/03\/23\/558887.aspx#559946\"> a laundry list of feature requests<\/a>. I&#8217;m not going to address all of them here (though I inadvertently <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2007\/08\/03\/4195888.aspx\"> addressed one of them a while ago<\/a>). But today I&#8217;m going to address request number two, &#8220;A simple switch to create two windows, one alongside the other, vertically split.&#8221;\n That feature has been around since Windows&nbsp;95, possibly even before that but I haven&#8217;t bothered to check.\n In the taskbar, click the button for the first window you want to position, then hold the Ctrl key and right-click the button for the second window. Select <i>Tile Vertically<\/i>. Bingo, the two windows are positioned side by side.\n (If you pick <i>Tile Horizontally<\/i> then they appear one above the other.)\n Of course, the upcoming Windows&nbsp;7 makes this operation much easier with a set of window-positioning features that collectively are known as <i>Snap<\/i>. Just drag one window to the left edge of the screen, and drag the other to the right edge of the screen. But what if you don&#8217;t want the windows to auto-dock? We&#8217;ll pick that up next time.<\/p>\n<p> <b>Bonus chatter<\/b>: In case you missed it, the Engineering Windows 7 team blog the history of window arrangement in Windows in a multi-part series: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/e7\/archive\/2008\/10\/01\/user-interface-managing-windows-windows.aspx\"> Part&nbsp;1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/e7\/archive\/2008\/10\/04\/follow-up-managing-windows-windows.aspx\"> Part&nbsp;2<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/e7\/archive\/2009\/03\/17\/designing-aero-snap.aspx\"> Part&nbsp;3: Aero Snap<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commenter n\/a posted a laundry list of feature requests. I&#8217;m not going to address all of them here (though I inadvertently addressed one of them a while ago). But today I&#8217;m going to address request number two, &#8220;A simple switch to create two windows, one alongside the other, vertically split.&#8221; That feature has been around [&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-17333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-tipssupport"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Commenter n\/a posted a laundry list of feature requests. I&#8217;m not going to address all of them here (though I inadvertently addressed one of them a while ago). But today I&#8217;m going to address request number two, &#8220;A simple switch to create two windows, one alongside the other, vertically split.&#8221; That feature has been around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17333","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=17333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17333\/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=17333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}