Windows 10: windows auto resized to span half the screen when being moved

not sure what this feature is called: when I reposition windows esp when moving something from one monitor to another the window being moved sometimes automatically gets resized to span exactly half the screen with the rest of the open apps arranged on the other half of the screen in large icons.so what is this feature called?......and more importantly, how do I turn it OFF permanently?It's been like that since Win 7 or 8 I want to say and my work PC just got upgraded to Win 11 and the feature is still there. I have never understood what the use case of this feature is. It seems logical to me

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moving and resizing

Hi Bob,

There may be several reasons why you are unable to resize or move applications after installing an update. To better assist you with your concern, we would like you to answer the questions below:

• Does it happen only on one application?
• Which application are you having issues resizing or moving?

In the meantime, we suggest you to run the Windows 10 troubleshooter. Kindly follow the steps below:

• Press Windows key +X, select
  Control panel
• Change the view by option on the top right to
  Large icons
• Click on troubleshooting and click on the
  view all option on the left panel
• Run the Windows Store apps troubleshooter

Let us know how it goes.

 

window screen gets auto resized when left screen idle

window screen gets auto resized and start gets opened when left screen idle

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triple screen, spanned, windows 11, taskbar random locations post start up / reboot, BUG?

Description:

1. spanning 3 screens
   
2. tools used - nvidia control panel
   
3. post reboot, taskbar moves from across all 3 screens (since windows identifies all 3 screens as 1) to the top of the middle screen
   
4. registry still shows that taskbar is at bottom position
   

work around #1:

1. disable spanning
   
2. enable spanning again
   

work around #2:

1. disable spanning
   
2. reboot
   
3. enable spanning again
   
4. before shutdown of PC, disable spanning
   

cons:

1. manual effort
   
2. inconvenience (BAD UX)
   

Query:

1. Any patch for this to stop spanning bug and taskbar movement?
   
2. can MS test this behaviour with third party display software (Nvidia, AMD radeon) to ensure that the most commonly used display hardware can work with Win11?
   
3. give us the ability to move the taskbar without registry hacks!