«Show windows Stacked Side by Side» In windows 10 is different. Can it be changed back?
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I don’t want to detract from lalalu2009’s issue, but the issue extends beyond having spaces between each tiled window. I use this feature, «Show windows stacked» or «Show windows side by side» to «maximize» each of the windows I have opened. In earlier versions of Windows, the only way to guarantee that the OS would remember to open a window to fill the entire screen was to tile a single window vertically or horizontally and then hold the Shift or Ctrl key down when you exit. In Windows 10, this functionality is pretty much gone because it is so buggy and unpredictable. For example, it seems if I have more than one application open, and all but one minimized, using «Show windows stacked» or «Show windows side by side» will tile the active window to one-half the screen instead of the full screen as it should. Sometimes these two «tile» features will shrink the active window to 1/4 the screen instead of using 100% of the screen-size. I would consider these two features as fundamental and basic to a user’s ability to control how their applications look and feel, so to have this not working on day 1 of a new OS version rollout is paramount to being considered completely incompetent. The only excuse for MS would be if this behavior was specific to a particular brand/model of PC, but I have experienced on both a Dell and HP Laptop, so please fix this IMMEDIATELY. Or at the very least, explain to me why these features would not be working. they had to have been fully tested before go-live, right. Another note, I also auto-hide my 3-story taskbar because I like to view my windows full-sized.
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Show windows side by side does not work
Show windows side by side does not work. Looks the same as show windows stacked.
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The problem is that the windows do not use the full screen.
In Windows 8.1 if I had two windows side by side the whole screen was used. Windows 10 seems to want to use only two thirds of the screen. This cuts off a lot of things in each window that I want to see. Windows 8.1 did it right. It’s broken in Windows 10.
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Show windows side by side does not work. Looks the same as show windows stacked.
This is the screenshot of what I get when I click «Show windows side by side» — it’s exactly the same as when I click «Show windows stacked». I use this command every day, so I’m dying now that it no longer works in Windows 10
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Show windows side by side does not work. Looks the same as show windows stacked.
This is the screenshot of what I get when I click «Show windows side by side» — it’s exactly the same as when I click «Show windows stacked». I use this command every day, so I’m dying now that it no longer works in Windows 10
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I can only laugh at the moron who designed snap and side by side. I guess can’t they count how many windows it take to fill a screen. They like quads and even if you end task ‘ApplicationFrameHost’ it likes 3 windows please.
I seen tens of thousand jquery web pages that could blow this code to pieces. How many employees does MS have?
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I’m going to take a wild guess and say this «side x side» was coded this way so that you can quickly bring up one of many windows to full screen. That might be fine for some, but it doesn’t cut the mustard for me.
I WANT to be able to actually READ info on one window so that I can cut and paste into the other window. The size of these reduced size windows make that hard or impossible.
While I wasn’t a big fan of Win 8, my wife still has it on her computer and right clicking on the bottom allows you to go «side x side» with 2 windows taking up the entire screen instead of 2/3’s of the screen.
There SHOULD be an option to make this command the same as in Win 7, Win 8, and Win 8.1. I think it worked in XP as well.
Show windows side by side in windows 10
I’ve always right clicked on the taskbar and selected «Show windows side by side.» Now on my Windows 10 laptop, the two windows display very narrow and only on one half of the screen. Is there something I can do to make two documents display across the entire width of the screen?
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Aero Snap is one of the interesting features of Windows 10 that automatically arrange windows by tiles or side by side. Here are the different methods on how you can customize your windows view on your desktop using Aero Snap:
Method 1: Side by side windows.
This method will make each window take half of the computer screen allowing you to arrange it side by side.
1. Press and hold Windows logo key.
2. Press the left or right arrow key.
Method 2: Vertical Snap
You can also use Aero Snap to maximize or minimize the open windows on your desktop.
1. Press and hold Windows logo key + Up arrow key to snap the window to the top halves of the screen.
2. Press and hold Windows logo key + Down arrow key to snap the window to the bottom halves of the screen.
3. Press Windows logo key + Up arrow key twice to maximize the window.
4. Press Windows logo key + Down arrow key twice to minimize the window.
Method 3: 2×2 Snap
2×2 Snap will let you put up to 4 windows on your desktop using a combination of the Windows logo key + left/right/up/down arrow key.
Don’t hesitate to reach out if you have other questions.
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Based on this thread and another in a different forum, the problem with side by side and stacked windows not working is due to a bug whereby various apps come up and appear to be on the desktop. When you do a side by side, you might have only 2 windows you see — everything else is minimised — but after the operation you wind up with screen real estate as if you were sharing with 2 3 4 or more shadow apps that do not show up.
If you use task manager, you will see phantom apps — e.g. calculator, calendar, skype, all of these come from C:\Program Files\WindowsApps. You might also see SystemSettings. If you kill these, you will generally find that Side-By-Side and Stacked windows behave as expected. Rarely, you may also have to stop/start (re-cycle explorer).
A guaranteed fix is to logoff (not reboot — just logoff) and login. Things work ok until you use a few modern apps and then they start to leak and screw things up.
Randomish8 (from other forum) may have reduced the problem to ApplicationFrameHost.exe as opposed to the mix of Apps I have stumbled across. I have not run into it yet but his solution may be more comprehensive.
I use Cygwin and I have a script that looks for processes in C:\Program Files\WindowsApps or named Systemsettings and kills those. If that is not sufficient I have another script that also recycles Explorer. So far that has always fixed things. I will try to look for ApplicationFrameHost.exe instead to see if that works.
In any event, you are not going nuts. The windows arrangement features works expected and as they always did when you log in and eventually degenerate as apps start to leak. Microsoft is definitely on the hook to fix this but in the meantime, there are ways of coping.
Show windows side by side does not work
Show windows side by side does not work. Looks the same as show windows stacked.
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The problem is that the windows do not use the full screen.
In Windows 8.1 if I had two windows side by side the whole screen was used. Windows 10 seems to want to use only two thirds of the screen. This cuts off a lot of things in each window that I want to see. Windows 8.1 did it right. It’s broken in Windows 10.
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Show windows side by side does not work. Looks the same as show windows stacked.
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I can only laugh at the moron who designed snap and side by side. I guess can’t they count how many windows it take to fill a screen. They like quads and even if you end task ‘ApplicationFrameHost’ it likes 3 windows please.
I seen tens of thousand jquery web pages that could blow this code to pieces. How many employees does MS have?
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I’m going to take a wild guess and say this «side x side» was coded this way so that you can quickly bring up one of many windows to full screen. That might be fine for some, but it doesn’t cut the mustard for me.
I WANT to be able to actually READ info on one window so that I can cut and paste into the other window. The size of these reduced size windows make that hard or impossible.
While I wasn’t a big fan of Win 8, my wife still has it on her computer and right clicking on the bottom allows you to go «side x side» with 2 windows taking up the entire screen instead of 2/3’s of the screen.
There SHOULD be an option to make this command the same as in Win 7, Win 8, and Win 8.1. I think it worked in XP as well.
