Windows 10: How to enable or disable Snap Layouts when you drag window to the top

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If you want to enable or disable Snap Layouts when you drag the window to the top in Windows 11, here is how you can do that. This feature is available in Windows 11 2022 Update Version 22H2 and later. If you have updated your computer to the latest version of Windows 11, you can […]

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Why can't I drag maximized windows with snap disabled

I have my system set up in a three monitor environment. I was forced to disable the snap because of the extremely frustrating handling of "sticky edges" between each screen. Recently, I have noticed that I am not longer able to drag a maximized window,
but first have to unmaximized my windows before I can drag them to a new position. This is a gigantic inconvenience.

I checked my HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Control Panel > Desktop > DragFromMaximize setting. It is set to 1 which should be the appropriate setting to allow me to complete this action.

Further searches indicate that this is somehow tied to having the snap feature disabled, but I was unable to find suggestions on how to set my preferences and/or registry settings to either make the drag maximized window behavior work with snap disabled
or apply a different set of settings that would allow me to leave snap enabled but disable sticky edges.

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How to: Use Snap Layouts and Snap groups in Windows 11

Windows 11 comes with a lot of multi-tasking improvements, one of the best ones is Snap layouts and Snap groups. This article discusses how to use Snap Layouts and Snap groups in Windows 11.

How to use Snap Layouts in Windows 11





Snap layouts in action - Picture credits https://blogs.windows.com/



The new Snap layouts feature focus is to increase user's productivity, which helps to arrange or snap the apps logically on the screen according to the user choice. This is particularly helpful when the user has a bigger, or widescreen, and has multiple applications open as per the requirement. To invoke snap layouts, on the active Window, either press Windows key+Z or hover over the maximize button. In the earlier releases of Windows, the user had to drag the app to the edge of the screen to activate the snapping feature.

On traditional displays, you would see four layout choices and for ultrawide screens, you would see six layout choices.





To choose the location of the app, simply click the mouse button in the desired layout to snap the first active app on that part of the screen. When the first app is snapped, snap assist would show up, asking you to select the app you want to snap on the second layout. After the second, select the app for 3rd layout(if you selected that layout) and so on.





(In the Picture - snap assist on the right when Hyper-V is snapped on the left)

Snap groups:


So after using Snap groups to snap your work apps, let us say you want to take a break, and want to use Focus sessions on the Clock app. This is where the snap group feature comes in handy. You can pick up where you left them off and can open the layout with a single click. In the taskbar, it shows the title as Group.





Snap Group having 2 apps grouped

To summarize, Snap groups remember the layouts used when multiple apps have been snapped mutually into a group using the Snap Layouts feature so that you can quickly resume where you left off.

Coming Soon

In the Windows Insider Builds 22557+, Microsoft has introduced a new way to invoke Snap layouts. Just drag a window to the top of the screen to reveal the snap layouts, drop the window on top of a zone to snap it, and use snap assist to finish building your layout.





How to turn off Snap Flyouts

In case this feature is not relevant to you, Microsoft has also provided an option in Windows 11 to turn off specific settings related to Snapping in the Settings app. To turn off Snap layouts:

1. Open Settings>System.
   
2. Navigate to Multi-tasking.
   
3. Turn off the settings you like, under snapping.
   
   
   
   
   

Also read:

• Windows 11 multitasking features to help you be more productive than ever before
  
• Windows 11 review - Your Windows Guide
  

 

Disabling Snap

I would like to disable snap.

Snap windows is turned off, but still after idle time (even short), the operating system automatically drags all open windows to the top left corner of my screen and shrinks them.

What should I do?

Thanks,

Efrat