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Moving app window from one display to the other
I just installed vista ultimate and have a dual monitor setup. My main
monitor is a 22"widescreen next to a 17"standard, both LCD. If I'm viewing a maximized window on my main screen(22") and try to drag it over to the other one, I can't until I minimize it. This is ridiculous. XP would allow this just fine, even resizing the window to fit the smaller screen perfectly maximized. Please tell me there's a fix for this. All drivers and firmware are up to date. Thanks. |
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Moving app window from one display to the other
What happens when you right click on the window icon in the taskbar and
choose Move? "Bill" wrote in message ... I just installed vista ultimate and have a dual monitor setup. My main monitor is a 22"widescreen next to a 17"standard, both LCD. If I'm viewing a maximized window on my main screen(22") and try to drag it over to the other one, I can't until I minimize it. This is ridiculous. XP would allow this just fine, even resizing the window to fit the smaller screen perfectly maximized. Please tell me there's a fix for this. All drivers and firmware are up to date. Thanks. |
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Moving app window from one display to the other
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Win...301891033.mspx
"If the window is maximized, you can't move it until you reduce the window to its smaller (pre-maximized or "restored") size by clicking the Restore Down button." It seems as though you are stuck with un-maximizing the windows before moving them to the other screen. Though, I was pretty sure it was just like this in XP as well |
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Moving app window from one display to the other
I have dual 22 inch monitors. If either monitor has a maximized window it
will not drag anywhere. This is true for XP and Vista. (dual boot) I must first un-maximize to drag the window. (not minimize) "Bill" wrote in message ... I just installed vista ultimate and have a dual monitor setup. My main monitor is a 22"widescreen next to a 17"standard, both LCD. If I'm viewing a maximized window on my main screen(22") and try to drag it over to the other one, I can't until I minimize it. This is ridiculous. XP would allow this just fine, even resizing the window to fit the smaller screen perfectly maximized. Please tell me there's a fix for this. All drivers and firmware are up to date. Thanks. |
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Moving app window from one display to the other
Yep, that's been standard behaviour since at least Windows 2000. A
maximized window is "snapped-to" the limits of the monitor it's displayed on and must be restored to a non-maximized state before it can be dragged to another display. -- Richard G. Harper [MVP Shell/User] * NEW! Catch my blog ... http://msmvps.com/blogs/rgharper/ * PLEASE post all messages and replies in the newsgroups * The Website - http://rgharper.mvps.org/ * HELP us help YOU ... http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm "Bill" wrote in message ... I just installed vista ultimate and have a dual monitor setup. My main monitor is a 22"widescreen next to a 17"standard, both LCD. If I'm viewing a maximized window on my main screen(22") and try to drag it over to the other one, I can't until I minimize it. This is ridiculous. XP would allow this just fine, even resizing the window to fit the smaller screen perfectly maximized. Please tell me there's a fix for this. All drivers and firmware are up to date. Thanks. |
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Moving app window from one display to the other
Thanks for the responses, but XP would allow a fully maximized window to be
moved over without unmaximizing it. I was doing it just yesterday. I also read what Windows says on their site about having to unmaximize, but I thought someone would know a fix due to XP being able to do this effortlessly. Not only did XP move a fully maximized window, but it would adjust the size to fit maximized into the smaller monitor window. Very nice... Too bad Vista is crippled. "DanR" wrote: I have dual 22 inch monitors. If either monitor has a maximized window it will not drag anywhere. This is true for XP and Vista. (dual boot) I must first un-maximize to drag the window. (not minimize) "Bill" wrote in message ... I just installed vista ultimate and have a dual monitor setup. My main monitor is a 22"widescreen next to a 17"standard, both LCD. If I'm viewing a maximized window on my main screen(22") and try to drag it over to the other one, I can't until I minimize it. This is ridiculous. XP would allow this just fine, even resizing the window to fit the smaller screen perfectly maximized. Please tell me there's a fix for this. All drivers and firmware are up to date. Thanks. |
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Moving app window from one display to the other
My version of XP will not do this.
"Bill" wrote in message news Thanks for the responses, but XP would allow a fully maximized window to be moved over without unmaximizing it. I was doing it just yesterday. I also read what Windows says on their site about having to unmaximize, but I thought someone would know a fix due to XP being able to do this effortlessly. Not only did XP move a fully maximized window, but it would adjust the size to fit maximized into the smaller monitor window. Very nice... Too bad Vista is crippled. "DanR" wrote: I have dual 22 inch monitors. If either monitor has a maximized window it will not drag anywhere. This is true for XP and Vista. (dual boot) I must first un-maximize to drag the window. (not minimize) "Bill" wrote in message ... I just installed vista ultimate and have a dual monitor setup. My main monitor is a 22"widescreen next to a 17"standard, both LCD. If I'm viewing a maximized window on my main screen(22") and try to drag it over to the other one, I can't until I minimize it. This is ridiculous. XP would allow this just fine, even resizing the window to fit the smaller screen perfectly maximized. Please tell me there's a fix for this. All drivers and firmware are up to date. Thanks. |
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Moving app window from one display to the other
Nor will mine. Nor will my copy of Windows 2000.
-- Richard G. Harper [MVP Shell/User] * NEW! Catch my blog ... http://msmvps.com/blogs/rgharper/ * PLEASE post all messages and replies in the newsgroups * The Website - http://rgharper.mvps.org/ * HELP us help YOU ... http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm "DanR" wrote in message ... My version of XP will not do this. "Bill" wrote in message news Thanks for the responses, but XP would allow a fully maximized window to be moved over without unmaximizing it. I was doing it just yesterday. I also read what Windows says on their site about having to unmaximize, but I thought someone would know a fix due to XP being able to do this effortlessly. Not only did XP move a fully maximized window, but it would adjust the size to fit maximized into the smaller monitor window. Very nice... Too bad Vista is crippled. "DanR" wrote: I have dual 22 inch monitors. If either monitor has a maximized window it will not drag anywhere. This is true for XP and Vista. (dual boot) I must first un-maximize to drag the window. (not minimize) "Bill" wrote in message ... I just installed vista ultimate and have a dual monitor setup. My main monitor is a 22"widescreen next to a 17"standard, both LCD. If I'm viewing a maximized window on my main screen(22") and try to drag it over to the other one, I can't until I minimize it. This is ridiculous. XP would allow this just fine, even resizing the window to fit the smaller screen perfectly maximized. Please tell me there's a fix for this. All drivers and firmware are up to date. Thanks. |
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Moving app window from one display to the other
I am able to do this with Vista.
I am also running MultiMonitor Taskbar (task bar across both monitors), and DisplayFusion (different background images on each screen). Both have options to move windows to the other monitor. -- http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview "Bill" wrote in message news Thanks for the responses, but XP would allow a fully maximized window to be moved over without unmaximizing it. I was doing it just yesterday. I also read what Windows says on their site about having to unmaximize, but I thought someone would know a fix due to XP being able to do this effortlessly. Not only did XP move a fully maximized window, but it would adjust the size to fit maximized into the smaller monitor window. Very nice... Too bad Vista is crippled. "DanR" wrote: I have dual 22 inch monitors. If either monitor has a maximized window it will not drag anywhere. This is true for XP and Vista. (dual boot) I must first un-maximize to drag the window. (not minimize) "Bill" wrote in message ... I just installed vista ultimate and have a dual monitor setup. My main monitor is a 22"widescreen next to a 17"standard, both LCD. If I'm viewing a maximized window on my main screen(22") and try to drag it over to the other one, I can't until I minimize it. This is ridiculous. XP would allow this just fine, even resizing the window to fit the smaller screen perfectly maximized. Please tell me there's a fix for this. All drivers and firmware are up to date. Thanks. |