Moving a Window

[Ricky Jimenez]

I am using the AERO option with Win7 which makes the borders of a
window somewhat transparent. When I want to move a window around the
display, I find right clicking and selecting Move doesn't work. I get
a cross with arrows that just doesn't seem to do anything. I can move
a window by going to the top edge, left clicking and moving my mouse
while holding down the left mouse button. If I release the left
button right away after getting the window into the desired position,
it sometimes becomes full screen. It seems you have to hold it in
position a while before releasing to prevent that. I would like to
know if my experience is similar to others here. Thanks.

 

[123Jim]

I am using the AERO option with Win7 which makes the borders of a
window somewhat transparent. When I want to move a window around the
display, I find right clicking and selecting Move doesn't work. I get
a cross with arrows that just doesn't seem to do anything.

same here ,, seems like a bug

I can move
a window by going to the top edge, left clicking and moving my mouse
while holding down the left mouse button. If I release the left
button right away after getting the window into the desired position,
it sometimes becomes full screen. It seems you have to hold it in
position a while before releasing to prevent that.

Not here ..click drag release, no problem .... !unless! I drag the
pointer to the edge of the display .. Dragging to the top maximizes the
window , dragging to the right or left edge makes the window half the
width of the display and the full height.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

I am using the AERO option with Win7 which makes the borders of a
window somewhat transparent. When I want to move a window around the
display, I find right clicking and selecting Move doesn't work. I get
a cross with arrows that just doesn't seem to do anything.

I thought Right-click > Move was meant to enable moving by the arrow
keys - and that's what happened when I just tried it here. However,
after I've moved the window with the keys, the mouse will also move it
(without a button press) - but it stops moving when I press Enter or
left-click the mouse. If instead I press the Esc key, the window jumps
back to where it started.

I can move
a window by going to the top edge, left clicking and moving my mouse
while holding down the left mouse button.

That's normal. To emphasize: that's the way it's usually done.

If I release the left
button right away after getting the window into the desired position,
it sometimes becomes full screen. It seems you have to hold it in
position a while before releasing to prevent that. I would like to
know if my experience is similar to others here. Thanks.

It sounds like you are using the mouse to move the window to the top
edge of the screen. By design, that will set the window to full screen.
I believe it can be turned off, but I like that capability and some
others related to it, so I never learned how to change it.

 

[KCB]

I am using the AERO option with Win7 which makes the borders of a
window somewhat transparent. When I want to move a window around the
display, I find right clicking and selecting Move doesn't work. I get
a cross with arrows that just doesn't seem to do anything. I can move
a window by going to the top edge, left clicking and moving my mouse
while holding down the left mouse button. If I release the left
button right away after getting the window into the desired position,
it sometimes becomes full screen. It seems you have to hold it in
position a while before releasing to prevent that. I would like to
know if my experience is similar to others here. Thanks.

Click Start, type snap in the Search box, press Enter. You will be
presented with this Control Panel applet:
Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Ease of Access Center\Make the mouse
easier to use
You will see a check box labeled 'Prevent windows from being automatically
arranged when moved to the edge of the screen'. Check this box, and you
won't have the issue of the window maximizing when you get close to the top
of the screen, but the right-click, move feature is still rather
problematic. It doesn't seem to perform like previous versions of Windows,
or at least it doesn't perform as well for me.

 

[Ricky Jimenez]

I thought Right-click > Move was meant to enable moving by the arrow
keys - and that's what happened when I just tried it here. However,
after I've moved the window with the keys, the mouse will also move it
(without a button press) - but it stops moving when I press Enter or
left-click the mouse. If instead I press the Esc key, the window jumps
back to where it started.


That's normal. To emphasize: that's the way it's usually done.


It sounds like you are using the mouse to move the window to the top
edge of the screen. By design, that will set the window to full screen.
I believe it can be turned off, but I like that capability and some
others related to it, so I never learned how to change it.

Thanks. I never realized that I was always at the top of the display
when releasing caused the window to go full screen. Has moving in
Windows always been this way or did it just start in Win7?

 

[Ricky Jimenez]

Not here ..click drag release, no problem .... !unless! I drag the
pointer to the edge of the display .. Dragging to the top maximizes the
window , dragging to the right or left edge makes the window half the
width of the display and the full height.

I am not sure I understand. In the following, lets say I have a
window in the middle of the display with all four edges, not far from
the middle.

1. Put the cursor in the top band (not border line) of the window,
left click and hold and move the mouse so that top edge goes to top of
the display and release mouse button. The window goes full screen.

2. Put the cursor in the left band, left click and hold and move the
mouse to the left and release mouse button. The right edge of the
window remains at the starting position while the left edge stays at
the button release point. The analogous thing happens with the right
and bottom bands as well as the top edge.

I couldn't figure out how you made the window go half screen in one
operation.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 21:15:37 +0100, 123Jim

I am not sure I understand. In the following, lets say I have a
window in the middle of the display with all four edges, not far from
the middle.

1. Put the cursor in the top band (not border line) of the window,
left click and hold and move the mouse so that top edge goes to top of
the display and release mouse button. The window goes full screen.

2. Put the cursor in the left band, left click and hold and move the
mouse to the left and release mouse button. The right edge of the
window remains at the starting position while the left edge stays at
the button release point. The analogous thing happens with the right
and bottom bands as well as the top edge.

I couldn't figure out how you made the window go half screen in one
operation.

Grab the TOP edge (for move, not resize) and move the window to the
left until the mouse cursor hits the edge and you will see. Or go the
other way... You can have two windows tiled on the two sides of the
screen.

Grab the top edge for resize instead and pull the cursor to the top and
you'll get a tall window.

Re your other post, I don't remember when it first appeared - do your
own research.

 

[Roy Smith]

I am not sure I understand. In the following, lets say I have a
window in the middle of the display with all four edges, not far from
the middle.

1. Put the cursor in the top band (not border line) of the window,
left click and hold and move the mouse so that top edge goes to top of
the display and release mouse button. The window goes full screen.

2. Put the cursor in the left band, left click and hold and move the
mouse to the left and release mouse button. The right edge of the
window remains at the starting position while the left edge stays at
the button release point. The analogous thing happens with the right
and bottom bands as well as the top edge.

I couldn't figure out how you made the window go half screen in one
operation.

You could also use ALT-TAB to get to the window you want, then once it's
the active window use the Windows-[Left/Right-arrow] to make if fill the
Left/Right half of the screen. Likewise Windows-Up/Down will maximize
or minimize the window.


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Roy Smith
Windows XP Home
Thunderbird 3.1.10
Monday, June 13, 2011 8:58:49 PM

 

[Roy Smith]

I thought Right-click > Move was meant to enable moving by the arrow
keys - and that's what happened when I just tried it here. However,
after I've moved the window with the keys, the mouse will also move it
(without a button press) - but it stops moving when I press Enter or
left-click the mouse. If instead I press the Esc key, the window jumps
back to where it started.


That's normal. To emphasize: that's the way it's usually done.


It sounds like you are using the mouse to move the window to the top
edge of the screen. By design, that will set the window to full screen.
I believe it can be turned off, but I like that capability and some
others related to it, so I never learned how to change it.

If you wish to disable Aero Snap, go to the Windows Control Panel,
select Ease of Access Center, then select 'Make the mouse easier to
use'. Tick the 'Prevent windows from being automatically arranged when
moved to the edge of the screen' box, then click the Apply button.


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Roy Smith
Windows XP Home
Thunderbird 3.1.10
Monday, June 13, 2011 9:06:01 PM

 

[Roy Smith]

Thanks. I never realized that I was always at the top of the display
when releasing caused the window to go full screen. Has moving in
Windows always been this way or did it just start in Win7?

It's a new feature of Windows that was introduced with Win7.


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Roy Smith
Windows XP Home
Thunderbird 3.1.10
Monday, June 13, 2011 9:07:01 PM

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

If you wish to disable Aero Snap, go to the Windows Control Panel, select
Ease of Access Center, then select 'Make the mouse easier to use'. Tick the
'Prevent windows from being automatically arranged when moved to the edge of
the screen' box, then click the Apply button.

Since, to quote myself, "I like that capability and some others related
to it", why would I want to disable it?

Which I also implied when I added "so I never learned how to change
it".

 

[Roy Smith]

Since, to quote myself, "I like that capability and some others related
to it", why would I want to disable it?

Which I also implied when I added "so I never learned how to change it".

I only posted that for the benefit of others who might be interested in
how to disable it...


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Roy Smith
Windows XP Home
Thunderbird 3.1.10
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 8:37:09 PM

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

I only posted that for the benefit of others who might be interested in how
to disable it...

I should have figured that out - sorry.

And actually, my intent was the same, in saying I thought there was a
method but admitting that I couldn't point to it.

Also, thank you for posting the keyboard methods a couple of posts up
in this thread (or down, if that's how you sort). I like the Windows
key + arrow key ones; I was unaware of them.