Your center monitor may have three 33% rows.īut let’s say you have a pesky 400-pixel wide application that doesn’t fit into one of the predefined templates. Your left monitor could use the predefined “Priority Grid” with a larger priority column in the middle, with two smaller columns flanking each side. With the prevalent use of multiple monitors comes the ability to set up your own zones (not just 50% left and 50% on the right) unique to each monitor. I have 1920 pixels of width on resolution of my monitors, and I definitely do not want Skype consuming over twice what it needs in order to routinely put it exactly where I want it in my desktop real estate.Įnter FancyZones, a much-needed update from Windows 7, 8, and 10. For example, I have a Skype for Business Windows that is just over 400 pixels wide. However, there are just times when 50% is too big.

It was easily a favorite feature of mine. With the introduction of this feature, I used it all the time and showed it to everyone I assisted in technology. Windows 7 onward gave users the ability to slam windows to the left or right side of the screen to resize the windows to 50% of the monitor’s width. Included in the current release (as of this writing v0.14.1) of PowerToys are three available toys:įor today’s blog, we are going to focus on the Windows 10 FancyZones PowerToy. You can download the installer at the same location at GitHub. Microsoft is looking for contributions to it from developers, along with any feedback there. Well, Microsoft has brought back some new tools under the PowerToys name for Windows 10.įull source code is available here on GitHub.

But after Windows XP, Microsoft did away with PowerToys when Bill Gates introduced “Trustworthy Computing.” This isn’t to say the tools weren’t trustworthy they just didn’t fit in line with the direction Microsoft was heading. My last blog referenced PowerToys as they existed in Windows 95 through Windows XP.

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