Comments on: Disable Aero Snap (the Mouse Drag Window Arranging Feature in Windows 7)

By: Narasimha Reddy

Narasimha Reddy — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:54:11 +0000

is ther any way to disable this feature for speific window? either programmatically or manually ?

By: Ian

Ian — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:08:54 +0000

@Larry thanks for pointing out the windows shortcuts.

You can hide the window off the side of the screen as long as the mouse pointer doesn’t hit the side. So grab the window by the far side (from the screen edge you want to hide it on) of the title bar and you can hide as much of it as you’d need.

By: Corey

Corey — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 18:40:56 +0000

Thanks! I like the snap with dual monitors, having a app running on one screen and multiple on the other, opening a webpage on half the screen is nice. However it can be annoying when you want to run a fullscreen app in window mode, the title bar pushes the viewable area off the screen a bit. Disabling the window snap allowed me to position it off the screen a bit

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 09:46:45 +0000

THANK YOU for showing how to turn of this ANNOYING “feature”. This should be OFF by default…

By: smith lee

smith lee — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 04:12:13 +0000

can i disable this feature for speific window, like chris said: to press ctrl or alt key when dragging window?

thanks.

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:22:06 +0000

An even better tool: http://www.winsplit-revolution.com/

By: The Geek

The Geek — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:57:05 +0000

@Frank

Good point, I don’t know why I didn’t include that… just updated the article.

By: Frank

Frank — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:47:19 +0000

@Tim:
Yes, there is. It’s called AeroSnap. You can get it here:

http://www.aerosnap.de/index_eng.htm

@The Geek:
Actually this is called Aero Snap. You got me a little confused when I went to your page. Hope you update your article.

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:18:53 +0000

Is there an app that adds this or similar functionality to older Windows versions (XP)?

By: Larry

Larry — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:24:35 +0000

@ myself – I meant to say (…using Windows Key+SHIFT+Left/Right Arrow)