↓ 06 – Aquasnap | Free Personal | USD18 Pro

Aquasnap is a powerful window manager that helps you arrange and organize multiple applications on your desktop with minimum effort. It allows you to achieve maximum multitasking, especially if you own a high-resolution monitor or a multi-monitor setup.

Drag and drop your windows to the sides or corners of the screen, and they’ll automatically be resized to fit one half or one quarter of the screen. This feature is just like the built-in Aero Snap function of Windows 10, but with more possibilities! This is especially useful on either a 4K monitor or multiple monitors.

↓ 07 – Divvy | USD14 | Windows | macOS

Divvy is an entirely new way of managing your workspace. It allows you to quickly and efficiently “divvy up” your screen into exact portions. With Divvy, it is as simple as calling up the interface, clicking and dragging. When you let go, your window will be resized and moved to the relative position on the screen. If that seems like too much work, you can go ahead and create as many different shortcuts as youd like that resize and move your windows in exactly the same way. Works great on Microsoft’s Windows 10 and Apple’s macOS.

↓ 08 – BetterSnapTool | €3.49 | macOS

As the name implies, it is a better snap tool than the default window snapping feature in macOSX. BetterSnapTool is a utility that mimics Windows 7 Aero snap, allowing you to easily manage your window positions and sizes by either dragging them to one of your screens corners or to the top, left or right side of your screen. This lets you easily maximize your windows or position them side by side. BetterSnapTool supports multiple monitors, hidden dock etc. You can change the design of the preview window and even set application specific snapping sizes!

↓ 09 – Magnet (Windows Manager) | USD1 | macOSX

Every time you want to copy content from one app to the other, compare files side by side or multitask in any other way, you need all the windows arranged accordingly. Magnet makes this process clean and simple. In just one drag to the edge, you snap any window into left, right, top or bottom half of your screen. And by dragging windows to the corners, you snap them into quarters. Taking advantage of such arrangements eliminates app switching and greatly enhances workspace efficiency. Magnet supports keyboard shortcuts as well, for every command it has to offer. There is that little icon sitting in the Menu Bar where you can find a predefined set or create yours. Features:

• Left/Right/Top/Bottom Halves of the screen supported
• Left/Center/Right Thirds of the screen supported
• Left Two Thirds & Right Two Thirds of the screen supported
• Fullscreen & all four Quarters of the screen supported
• Runs both on Retina and regular displays
• Up to six external displays supported
• Built to run on all macOS versions since 10.9 Mavericks
• macOS 10.12 Sierra optimized

↓ 10 – Moom | USD10 | macOSX

Do you spend a lot of time moving and zooming windows, so you can better see and work with all the content on your Mac? Instead of doing that work yourself, let Moom handle the task for you. When used via the mouse, all you need to do is hover over the green resize button in any Mac OS X window. Moom’s panel appears, and you then click the desired action.

When used via the keyboard, a hot key displays the Moom bezel, and you can then use the arrow and modifier keys to move and resize the windows. You can also save window layouts, create custom controls with shortcuts that work globally or work only when Moom’s keyboard bezel is onscreen.

↓ 11 – Better Window Manager | USD5 | macOSX

A tiny window management app for the Mac. Better window manager allows you to put windows where you want, save their positions, and restore them with a keyboard shortcut.

↓ 12 – MaxSnap | USD6 | macOSX

Typically, in macOS, you use the window title to move and the lower right corner to resize the window. MaxSnap allows you to re-arrange windows by using its entire surface – just click fn or Fn+Shift. and start changing window size or location. It is very convenient. You won’t be able to survive without it. Those who used Linux before probably remember Alt-Drag function.

↓ 13 – MaxTo | USD20/30 | Windows

The window manager you didn’t know you missed. Divide your screen, increase your productivity. You can keep a different set of regions open on each virtual desktop. Use our handy setting to choose if you want each virtual desktop to have its own set of profiles. Only works on Windows 10. Because only Windows 10 has virtual desktops.

↓ 14 – Shutter Split Screen | USD15 | Windows

With widescreen, multi-screen, Ultra HD screen (4K, 5K and 8K) use increasing, you often switch back and forth between browser, or between your browser and a text document.

Sometimes you also need to move or resize the window and wished there was some way you could just fast and look at multiple at the same time. When you focus only on a portion of the area on the screen, you do not take full advantage of every area in the screen.

↓ 15 – UltraView Desktop Manager
| USD99 | Windows

UltraView Desktop Manager 2.0 now brings the productivity benefits of multiple monitors to large, high-resolution monitors, especially 4K UHD, QHD and ultrawide monitors.

Today’s massive LED monitors and 4K TVs are exciting to look at but can be difficult to work with productively. Key info and apps can get buried under other windows, causing you to miss deadlines or important alerts as you struggle to task-switch and multitask across a variety of work obligations, personal obligations and personal interests, little of which is visible to you at any one time.

Now you can split those giant monitors and 4K TVs into any number of virtual monitors, including micro monitors dedicated to time tracking, task managers, personal email, instant messaging, social media, live financial TV news, streaming music and video, newsfeeds and security cameras. Now you’ll never miss anything important because you lacked timely awareness.

↓ 16 – KDE Mover-Sizer [ Discontinued ] | Free Open Source | Windows

An essential add-on for Windows XP, 2K, Windows Server, Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1. It is a background application that emulates the behaviour of KDE, which is a rather good Linux desktop environment. Essentially, you hold down the Alt key, and Left-click to move a window, Right-click to resize it; and from anywhere inside the window.

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I am trying to figure out how to resolve this issue that I have with my Windows 10 device. Every time that I log into Windows with the pin it will pop up the attached image in the lower right hand corner. If I log in with my password it doe not give the message, but if I lock the screen and then log back in with my pin the next time it brings up the message again. Does anyone know why it keeps saying this, and how to get rid of the messages? I am connected to AAD and I am running Windows version 1709. We are not pushing out any policies with AAD, so I know that is not the problem. Thanks in advance for your help.

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Go to Settings>Accounts and see if there are warning messages such as Verify account.

If that looks OK, change your pin while logged in. It sounds like your PIN was created using an earlier password, not your current one.

1. Run GPEDIT.MSC. Under computer configuration, expand administrative templates>system>logon. Select the «Always wait for the network at computer startup» value. The default state is «not configured». Set this to «On».

2. Make sure you logoff from all computers if you logon more than one computer using the same username. Changing the password by using Ctrl+Alt+Del. Then logon.

3. Use «net use * /d» command to delete all mapping drives. Then use «net use \\servername password /u:domainname\username» to cache the credentials. Log on again.

Besides, I see a same situation in Microsoft Community, try the solution here to check result.

Change the LOGON HOURS of the account to have no restructions, in Active Directory

Disable the Kerberos DES SECURITY on the account, in Active Directory

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I have tried this a few different ways and it does not seem to fix the issue. I even logged in with my password, then did I forgot pin to totally reset the pin. When I locked my screen and logged in with my new pin the message popped up again.

We are not running Active Directory. We are using Azure Active Directory, but it does not have all the same settings.

Even though stay in the different scenario, you could also try my suggestion, instead of waiting for other solution, why not try existing idea.

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I should have been more specific, I have tried as many as I can. Azure AD does not give all the same options that on premise AD gives, so some of these things I am not able to try.

1. This option did not work.

2. I tried this one as well, but also did not resolve the problem.

3. I am not really sure how to go about trying this option. Because we are logging into AAD I am not totally sure what server address I would use as they are not our servers. I would not mind giving this option a shot if I knew how to do it with the Azure servers.

4. I tried to go to the MMC and add the user and groups snap in. After that, I tried to go to my user account to check the Kerberos, and LOGON HOURS. However, because it is an AAD account it does not show up in the user list. It only shows the local accounts that are on the computer. Since the user account is not listed there I am unable to try this option as well. There might be a place in the Azure web portal for these settings, but I have not found it yet.

I did not mean to make it look like I was unwilling to try your ideas, I should have done a full write up. I am very appreciative of your suggestions on this problem.

Did you resolve this? I’m getting the same issue.

I recently changed the default email/login (the domain) for my Office 365 account. I use this account to sign into my Windows 10 machines (two machines — one Enterprise, one Workstation Pro).

Since I changed the account every time I unlock the machine using either Windows Hello or my PIN I am immediately prompted to re-enter my credentials via the message:

«Windows needs your current credentials. Please lock this computer, then unlock it using your most recent password or smart card»

If I lock the PC and then unlock it using the password (not Hello or PIN) the problem is resolved until I unlock it again using either Hello or PIN — at which point the same message is raised.

One of the machines has had Windows reinstalled since the domain change, but still sees the issues. I have also logged out of both devices and changed my password via the admin portal. But I still see the issue.

I do not see any errors in the Windows event log that tie up to the time when this message appears, or when the PC’s are unlocked.

One option to consider is that this AAD tenant was previously sync’d to an on-premise domain. But it is no longer synced. This was removed intentionally several months before this problem started.

No, I have not resolved this issue yet. I do believe that it does have to do with previously being sync’d to an on-premise domain. I have not been able to get the message to go away. We have a new employee that we setup their computer after we had disconnected from the on-prem, so he shouldn’t have the problem, but he has the same issue.

Also, we have another network that has the same setup as us except, it has never been sync’d with an on-prem domain. They do not get the same message, so I think it has to do with the AAD/on-prem sync.

However, we did find some logs on the DC that could end up being useful, but I have not had the time to track this one down yet. Each time we login to a computer with a pin it creates an error log on our DC. There are two types of logs «Kerberos-Key-Distribution-Center» (Event ID 21) and «User Device Registration» (Event IDs 304 and 204).

Kerberos-Key-Distribution-Center: Event 21

The client certificate for the user is not valid, and resulted in a failed smartcard logon. Please contact the user for more information about the certificate they’re attempting to use for smartcard logon. The chain status was : The operation completed successfully.

User Device Registration Event 304

Automatic registration failed at join phase. Exit code: Unknown HResult Error code: 0x801c03f2. Server error: empty. Debug Output:\r\n joinMode: Join
drsInstance: azure
registrationType: sync
tenantType: managed
tenantId:
configLocation: undefined
errorPhase: join
adalCorrelationId: undefined
adalLog: undefined
adalLog: undefined
adalResponseCode: 0x0
.

User Device Registration Event 204

The get join response operation callback failed with exit code: Unknown HResult Error code: 0x801c03f2.
Activity Id:
The server returned HTTP status: 400
Server response was:

Simon, could you take a look at your DC and see if you are getting these same event in your logs?