Windows 10: Why do windows maximise if they touch the edge of the screen when being dragged around?

One 'feature' of Windows that is incredibly annoying is when you have a window that has been reduced in size and is being dragged around the screen. If it touches the edge of the screen it immediately jumps back to full screen. When click to reduce its size again, it goes back to where it originally was.


I have never seen any reason why this should happen intentionally.


I presume there is no way to turn off the 'feature'?

:)

 

Any maximised window is larger than my screen

I also enquired in alt.comp.os.windows-10 and had several suggestions. But Ralph had the solution which I've pasted below, with my reply.

"That is perfectly normal.

When the window is maximized, it does not need its draggable frame borders which are used to resize the window. So the draggable window frame borders (8 pixels wide for you) are placed just off the edges of the screen. That lets the main part of the window (inside the frame borders) occupy the full 1020x1080.

This will happen with any screen size."

Thanks Ralph, mystery solved.

Personally I like being able to drag the sides or corners of a window at any time, and particularly when it's maximised. With this current functionality, that needs one extra click on the Restore icon, before the drag. And, depending on the preceding size and position, the restore won't necessarily be to the new requirement.

Hence my macro to 'maximise to screen size'.

Terry, East Grinstead, UK

 

Windows 10 maximising windows when moving to a different monitor, why?

Hi,

To assist you further, can you send us a screenshot of what's happening?

Also, make sure when you drag a window it doesn't touch the edges of your screen because
Microsoft Windows 10 automatically maximize the window when it touches the edges.

Looking forward to your response.

 

in win 10, maximized window won't drag

I'm having the exact same issue. I work on two screens and used to drag excel worksheets (maximised worksheets) from screen to screen. Now it wont work. I have to leave maximised mode and then move the window and then maximised it again. This feels like
one extra step and I know not the biggest inconvenience, but it is still annoying me.