window management

Habitually, I keep six or seven folders on my desktop and, when using XP, they would always remember their individual proportions and what part of the screen they were to open up on - that way I could always have several columns of folders side-by-side, with no overlaps, always with the same...

This is gonna sound real dumb but ........ How do I get a window to open full page size when I open a new window?? Sorry for such a stupid question but its driving me nuts have to keep enlarging the window. Thanks

Hi everyone, just installed Windows 7. I opened my "Personalize" window to change my desktop background and I was messing around (testing the new click/drag to position windows) and I somehow threw my "Personalize" window to the far right off my screen! I can not get to it. I can see its open...

Want to get rid of Preview windows When I hover the mouse pointer over a program on the task bar, a small pop-up window opens that has the name of the program and an X (which allows me to close the program, though right-clicking is how I prefer to do it). I find these pop-up windows very...

I haven't seen this in any FAQs so far, so I hope I won't annoy anyone with my question. :) I've sought help on another forum, but nobody could help there, so I wonder if I have more luck here ... Here is my 'question':

Am I alone in hating the way Windows 7 handles windows focus? I guess in a way it's good that a dialogue doesn't pop up in the middle of typing or clicking, resulting in an unintended answer to the dialogue, but too often I find myself missing new windows. Say for example a website has a...

I play a lot of games on my computer and I've run into an issue with windows 7. Mainly I'm playing ffxi online and using 2 instances of the game, referred to as 2-boxing. In windows 7 it loads the 2 games into 1 tab and because of this my ps2 controller is flakey. It doesn't really know which...

Hello All, I have 3 monitors, the middle one is set as my primary monitor and the 2 at each side are extended desktops. All my icon's sit on the middle monitor including my start menu as it's set to the primary monitor. My problem is that when I download anything to desktop it doesn't download...

Hi Somehow Windows 7 sleep mode has corrupted my dual display config (it has resulted in my desktops being switched around on my monitors (primary is now monitor 2 etc., monitor #1 now displays only in green etc. etc.) and all my apps are on the wrong monitor. A reboot fixes it, but Firefox...

I am using Windows 7 in 5040x1050 resolution using Matrox TripleHead2Go. The problem is that taskbar live previews appear to be automatically disabled at this resolution (only windows titles are shown). When I am using 5040x1050, they look like this: Link Removed When I switch to...

I've had Windows 7 RC1 for a few months now, and up until now it's been working flawlessly. Now when I'm doing anything, I click with the mouse, the window loses focus to another window. This is hard to describe but I've noticed that some of the open programs on the taskbar also disappear but...

In XP/Vista, when a program was open and active, you could minimize it by clicking on that program's name on the taskbar. For example, with an instance of Firefox open you could minimize that instance by clicking the same thing again. In 7, this still works, but only if you have one instance...

Among new features of Windows 7 is Snap (or Smart Window Arrangement), where Snap functionality enables end-user to move a window toward the top of the screen to maximize the window to fill the screen automatically, or drag the window to the edges of the screen to resize and expand the window...

I dont know if Windows 7 already has this capability but if it does I'd love to know how to turn it on. I just thought a really useful feature would be to make a window be always on top but be able to adjust the transparency of the window. This could be really useful if you were doing a task...

When I press Win-Left/Right, the current window snaps to the edge of the screen and is resized to half a screen. I want to customize the feature: i.e. I want snapping to the left make a window two thirds of the screen and snapping to the right one third. Is that possible? Google found nothing...

I like the start menu toolbar to be on top of the screen so far so good but... whenever I double click any media file the WMP mini viewer opens up to play the file the mini viewer's title bar is always underneat the start menu toolbar this happens every time when you resize the window with the...

I have a few problem with windows 7. For what ever reason now when I open another window it will open in back of the with in front of it.I click on the new window and it comes to the front but I can find a switch to help it open in front. Also I have made a window with my shortcuts in it and 2...

Ok, the problem is, everytime i put a window in the screen border it maximizes for me, in my case, i want to play a game in window mode, but i need to use the border so the game maximizes itself.. i'd appreciate if any1 know how to disable this option, there's a screen to help u understand...

With my personnal experiance, I have discovered an error that can not be recovered unless restarting or knowing stuff about windows 7. Go to desktop (not the folder) Open a Window, such as your user, or whatever. Drag the window to under the start menu. The window can not...

I really like dragging to maximize and dragging to tile. To be consistent, dragging to taskbar should minimize...