Windows 10: In Windows 10, how can I increase the border padding so that it is easier to resize windows...

Question/Subject says it, pretty much. I used to be able to do this, but maybe that was a version or three ago. This seems like a basic accessibility issue that should be covered in Ease of Use.

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Windows 10 windows' borders are too thin!!

That's OK, I have no intention of hiring you as a UI/UX designer either - and this has nothing to do with your problems with language.

The border is not the visual cue at all.

• It was not in Win 3.x because they had borders on resizable windows and non-resizable windows. The only difference was non-resizable borders did not have the little line to separate the corners.
• It was not in Win 9x because they had borders on resizable and non resizable windows and with its preponderance of grey, it was often hard to tell where border ended and the program began.
• It was not in XP but the default blue borders made it easier to tell the difference between the border and the program - but not between resizable and sizable ones.
• As for XP, the same for the Aero twins - except both the resizable and non resizable borders were a simulated glass look.

The one, true, real and only reliable visual cue for where you can resize a window since the beginning of resizable windows in Windows is the MOUSE CURSOR. When Apple copied Windows and moved their resize point from just the bottom left resize box to the
edges, they copied the mouse cursor visual cue and not the border. They did this because it is poor UI/UX design to rely on a static visual cue that is hard or impossible to tell the difference from the same or virtually identical non-resizable border

When you understand this and look at the identical border on the non-resizable Win 10 mouse control panel but still jump to the, at this point, weird conclusion that this same border in Edge means that the tab is resizable because it has a border, then you
have shown no understanding of UI/UX. Just because you think it says "resize me " does not and never has meant you are right.

 

Making window resizing easier

Thanks for reminding me of this. I'd used it before when windows came up with the title bar off screen. But it's more intuitive to use the mouse.

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I tried changing those settings, but they only affect the titlebar, not the rest of the borders. -15 and -60 were the default values on my system (version 1909). I guess I'll need to go to a different theme that has real borders.

Thanks everyone for your suggestions; I'll check them out.

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Curious small window bug - Win7 - UPDATE: Command line -tab parameter issue?

Any steps to reproduce? GPU-Z dynamically changes the window border/size to enable resize only when sensor tab is active