in win 10, maximized window won't drag

Anonymous
2018-03-23T18:11:30+00:00

Hi. I turned off snap and now a maximized window on my desktop won't drag and get smaller.

I browsed this site and did the Restorehealth in the command prompt thing, also sys scannow with no help.

In regedit, my hkey current user control panel desktop Drag from Maximum is set to "1".

How do I keep snap off and be able to drag maximized windows?

Thanks

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  1. Anonymous
    2019-03-13T19:54:48+00:00

    I've found a fix and if anyone is interested still you this is what you need to do to enable/disable this:

    1. Open Control Panel 
    2. Go To Ease Of Access
    3. Go To Mouse Settings (Pointer settings)
    4. Check Or Uncheck "Prevent windows from being automatically arranged when moved to the edge of the screen"

    There you go, and **** the rest of u lazy morons for lying to people and trying to convince them otherwise.

    Have a nice day. :)

    Thats the way to do it. Thanks for the advice , great solution.

    Have a great day ! You made my :D

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-01-27T18:11:04+00:00

    Thank you very much for taking your time to come in here and reply to this.

    I don't often have issues but any time I look on here for help this is usually how it goes.

    -Someone asks a question

    -9 people reply with bad info

    -8 people reply saying they're doing it wrong

    -1 or 2 "MVP" reply with both of the above

    -1 person like yourself gives a good answer and actually helps

    Cheers

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-12-25T00:19:26+00:00

    I've found a fix and if anyone is interested still you this is what you need to do to enable/disable this:

    1. Open Control Panel 
    2. Go To Ease Of Access
    3. Go To Mouse Settings (Pointer settings)
    4. Check Or Uncheck "Prevent windows from being automatically arranged when moved to the edge of the screen"

    There you go, and **** the rest of u lazy morons for lying to people and trying to convince them otherwise.

    Have a nice day. :)

    thanks ,man

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-11-18T00:24:55+00:00

    Hi MeatMonger,

    I had same problem. After few experiments, I got problem solved on my Win 10 pc.

    Here is what I did to solve maximized window drag.

    Settings -> Multitasking

    Snap  ->  ON

    When I snap a window, automatically size it to fill available space  -> OFF

    When I snap a window, show what I can snap next to it  -> OFF

    When I resize a snapped window, simultaneously resize any adjacent snapped window -> OFF

    These steps work for me so far and I am  happy with it, turning OFF these three snapping features I really have no use.

    I hope this works for all of you having same problem.

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  5. Anonymous
    2018-10-13T18:41:53+00:00

    When I tried the fix mentioned, it seems that it turned snap back on.

    It seems to me that there are two options:

    1. Snap turned on: You are able to drag maximised windows but the window "snags" when dragging between screens.

    OR

    1. Snap turned off: You ate UNABLE to drag maximised windows but it doesn't "snag" when dragging between screens.

    Frankly, I don't like either of these options.

    I'm getting a little tired of things that work getting "broken" by updates.

    This is exactly what I found, too. I just switched from using Nvidia Surround to not using it (waiting on a DisplayPort cable so I can configure Surround correctly). With Surround, I've become very used to dragging maximized windows between screens without snapping, since technically the whole desktop is a single screen when in Surround as far as the OS is concerned. After turning off Surround, this is one of the most glaring changes I've noticed; it seems like such an obviously beneficial feature that I'm shocked to learn that my previous functionality was a side-effect of Surround but isn't supported natively in Windows.

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