Window management shortcut key - Windows 7

It's been a while since I wrote.. just too many things happening on my side.

On my win7 machine, I accidentally hit the right arrow key while holding the windows logo key (the one that pops up the start menu) and the active window snapped itself to the right side of the screen. Pressing the same keys again made the window snap to the left and once again and it restored to the original view. I went.. 'neat'.

NOTE TO SELF: Windows logo key + Right / Left arrow key toggles the active window to the right, left or restores the original view.

Here's the complete list:

Win Logo Key + Up Arrow: Maximizes the active window
Win Logo Key + Down Arrow: Restores the active window if maximized or minimizes the active window
Win Logo Key + Left or Right Arrow: Toggles between snapping the window to Left/Right or brings it back to the default view

Found it interesting and wanted to share!

Arun

Published Monday, February 22, 2010 10:32 AM by nmarun
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Monday, February 22, 2010 12:20 AM by Twitter Mirror

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# re: Window management shortcut key - Windows 7

Tuesday, May 04, 2010 2:44 PM by PAVAN

try win logo key plus tab

# re: Window management shortcut key - Windows 7

Tuesday, May 04, 2010 10:52 PM by nmarun

Pavan,

That's the aero feature that was there in Vista as well. This one's for resizing and moving windows around.

Arun

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