Hi, Does anyone know how to auto arrange three file manager windows easily in Windows 10? Or arranging any three windows so they snap together the way it was possible years ago. My search elsewhere has been fruitless. Cheers.
You are thinking of 'Tile' I think I'll check if that was available in the shell on Win 95, I still have Win95. For me working with two windows side by side Win+E Win+E that creates two explorer windows (where 'Win' is the windows flag key) "Win + Right Arrow" moves the focused copy of explorer to the right half of the screen, Windows will then show you a list of windows on the left to choose from, the one you pick will fill the left hand side of the screen.
Ah right click the taskbar and choose "Show Windows side by side" is the modern equivalent. Actually I just checked and it has been this way since long long ago.
i avoided downloading win 10 for a while--till a week or so when it did it regardless. laptop starts up a lot quicker now--so--no complaints.
Thanks Jim. "Show Windows side by side" separates the available windows which can be useful but I am trying to find a way to snap three (or more) windows together. Snap Assist does this with two windows but it would be great to snap three. Snap Assist. To snap a desktop window, left-click its window title bar, hold your mouse down, and then drag it to either the left or right edges of your screen. You'll see a transparent overlay appear, showing you where the window will be placed. Release your mouse button to snap the window there.
'Tile windows vertically' was possible once upon a time, but appears to not be a default behaviour now, I might look into writing a shell extension to all this at some point.
Tech speak, the shell is what most people think Windows actually is, it is the bit you look at and interact with, it is the set of programs that provide the desktop and explorer, a shell extension is usually a program that hooks into the shell and provides a new menu entry on right click for example. Shell extensions are also the cause of endless grief and when people are blaming Microsoft for a crappy operating system it is often a badly written shell extension from a third party program that is actually causing their problems.
