window management

We know there’s a vocal set of people who just love virtual desktops. Having desktops beyond the limitations of a physical display is a powerful way to organize and quickly access groups of windows. Virtual desktops aren’t new. In fact, Xerox PARC created one of the earliest virtual desktop...

Working on desktop with any app, it jumps to taskbar within 10-15 seconds, it is under the icon of Firefox. Clicking on the icon of Firefox on the taskbar reinstates the program on the desktop but the same transfer happens in the next 15-20 seconds to the taskbar again and again. Same with...

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Often, when I open a File Explorer window, other minimized open programs with buttons on the taskbar will not come to the front when I click on the button. (I then need to minimize F.E. Alt-Esc doesn't do anything in this circumstance). This started happening suddenly, but a system restore did...

Hi Anyone who is a gamer knows that there are times when you really need a little help. That's a problem in a lot of games that are full screen and can't be minimized easily. You have to go through a process of changing to Windows mode or exiting the game, open you browser, (by this time you...

Hi Guys Right I am not to sure whether this is a windows problem or a GPU problem however please let me know what you guys think. Whenever I am using an application that requires having a window open (e.g. Chrome or control panel) I will be using it for a couple of seconds/minutes and I can...

I have the display set to extend, have the monitors set to the correct order, and the mouse moves easily across the two monitors. But I can't drag a windows from monitor 1 to monitor 2. I did remember to reduce the size of the window, but while it moves over to the side of monitor 1, it does...

I need to use this program for my programing class, each window search a different task. My problem is, it is very difficult to switch between those opened windows because they all look the same. When I go down the list, there is no animation show the list move because every window's name is...

Im in advanved appearance setting and i can't maximize the window nor resize it ..the content of the window is cut off with no scroll option ... its almost like if i were on chrome and i would be zoomed into 110% - 120% area .. it does it othe some other system windows too .. driving me crazy ...

When I click on a desktop icon the window opens either on the left side or the right side of the screen. When I click on another icon the window for that program appears but is on top of the first window. I know I can move the windows afterwards but how do I get the windows to automatically open...

When using 2 monitors, you can flick windows between the screens,etc. I have a 24" widescreen monitor. It is really too wide to do anything (except watch video) with an app maximized. My question is, are there an ways to make it act like 2 monitors? Or at least to help manage apps s o they...

Hello, I have a 3 monitor setup with extended displays. However, when I change windows by using the TaskBar to a window that is not on my main display, it periodically repositions the window to whatever the main display is set at (changes screens). I've tried changing which monitor is the...

Folks, I've joined this forum for a couple reasons. Foremost is that I don't believe that Microsoft is interested in anything I have to say. Secondly, I'm using Windows 7 at my office and on my main personal computer and, after getting a new laptop with Windows 8, I realize that I have to...

I use Windows 7 Professional 64 bit. Frequently, new windows open BEHIND existing windows. If I can grab the top of the new window, I can drag it. However, I cannot bring it to the top. Any fixes out there?

Hi One of the features that I missed in both Windows 7 and 8 was the ability to make the task-bar stay beneath program windows. I have several programs that have controls very close to the bottom of the screen, and it's really a pain to have the task bar keep popping up every time I try...

Hi everybody ::- ). One thing which has me perpetually angry at the ALT+TAB application selection window in Windows 7, is that after a time (about 1 second) it hides the window I triggered it from, replacing it with the window of the currently selected application. So let's say I'm typing...

Assume I have opened a couple of windows for some applications on my Win 7 desktop. Can I somehow store the current window positions and sizes (and restore them later (even after a reboot))? As far as I remember there is a tool which ofers this feature but I don't remember the name. Peter

Heyo! After some research, I'm pretty sure my problem is called Focus Stealing, I've looked at a bunch of forums/threads on the internet but each seem to have individual symptoms etc so the fix to someone's problem is not the same fix to someone else's. This is probably going to be a long...

Fixes an issue in which a non-topmost window that is formatted with the top-most property appears unexpectedly above a topmost window in Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2. This issue occurs after you click the Show Desktop button two times, or after... Link Removed

Win7 has a about 50-75 problems, yet instead of MS spending time fixing it, they made an even worse OS (win8). MS trolling us? ....Why is it so hard for win7 to open up applications in the active window? Its the window im using, its the window that launched the app, yet MS feels the need to...