How do I disable split screen for opening links?

Anonymous
2013-10-21T19:00:24+00:00

I am running Win 8.1 on a TABLET.  I have about 9 inches of screen real estate to work with.

If I click a link in, say, the Mail app, it will launch IE in 50/50 mode with the existing mail app (which then rearranges itself to only show the single message I was looking at).

This is not at all helpful.  This gives me a four inch web browser, which isn't big enough to see clearly at all.  The controls are all too close together to operate by touch, etc.  I am then forced to manually drag to expand the IE window to full screen.  Unfortunately, the control to do this is also rather small, and I usually miss the first two times.  It typically takes me about 10-15 seconds between clicking a link in email and being able to read the corresponding web page.

Windows 8 handled this correctly.  I would like to revert to the behavior of always opening apps in full screen mode.  How can I accomplish this?

I know it should be possible.  If I hold the tablet in portrait mode, the annoying split window thing does not happen.  (It's not natural for me to hold it this way all the time.)

Is there a registry setting or something for "Always open new apps in full screen mode"?

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-07-08T11:32:48+00:00

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-07-08T11:52:39+00:00

    Hi,

    See if this tutorial helps: http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/snap-two-or-more-windows-81-apps-to-display-them.html

    Hi are you saying to swipe down and then drag the new window to the upper middle to make it fullscreen? Ok that's a little better than trying to grab the middle I guess, but still not really an acceptable way to handle this, default to fullscreen seems like it should just be an option from day 1, yet like 2 years lf complaints and its still not avail :/ expected from a free licensed os but if they want to make $200 a copy this kind of oversight shouldn't exist.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-07-08T12:17:31+00:00

    I actually just realized you can go out of tablet mode and it will open in a fullscreen window too. Also not ideal as I like tablet Mode for a tablet obviously but I may just stop using tablet mode.

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-07-08T12:47:53+00:00

    You can disable Snap View permanently if you wish, instructions here: http://www.technorms.com/33660/how-to-disable-the-windows-snap-feature

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  5. Anonymous
    2016-07-08T15:22:45+00:00

    See if this tutorial helps: http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/snap-two-or-more-windows-81-apps-to-display-them.html

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    A quick swipe from the left replaces one app with another. A slow swipe splits the screen

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    In my case swipe from the left opens the App Switcher.   Related to this supposedly somehow in MUF IE a swipe somewhere near (?) the left will alternatively give us a Back gesture.  That is seldom reliable either--more random appearance of the App Switcher.  There should be training/tuning dialogs for both--the same way that they are available for Flicks--which I have never been able to master either--even with the "training/tuning".   ; }

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