Maximizing Windows to 1/2 the screen

[blakehew]

I was just thinking the other day when i was playing with my brother new 24" widescreen dell monitor that it would be nice to have a utility that would enable me to maximize windows to 1/2 the screen. Say for example i want to have 2 browsers up side by side or one brower and some other app, with 1920X1200 Res there is plenty of space for it, but what a pain to have to resize the window manualy every time. Is there such a utility avaliable that could acomplish this? Maybe if i could talk to the right people i could get ATI and NVIDIA to add this feature to their dual monitor apps like nview. Anybody think this would be usefull or know if there is allready something avaliable that can do this?

 

[xtknight]

Already something in Windows XP to do it:

Click the taskbar entry for one window
Hold down CTRL and click the second window
Right click one of the selected taskbar entries
Select either tile vertically or tile horizontally from the context menu

 

[blakehew]

You learn something new every day 🙂 Thanks

 

[blakehew]

You learn something new every day 🙂 Thanks

 

[blakehew]

You learn something new every day 🙂 Thanks

 

[Ig]

It's already part of nvidia's drivers.

First enable 'nView Desktop Management' in nVidia display properties
Then go to 'User Interface'
'Enable display gridlines'
Click 'Edit Gridlines...' button
Divide your desktop how you want it
Under 'Options' in 'Grid Settings', check 'nView Maximize' (this changes 'Full-desktop maximize' to 'Grid-area maximize' in the 'Title Bar Buttons' section)
Exit 'Grid Settings'
Check 'Grid-area maximize'

Now you'll have a button to maximize to grid, meaning the window will maximize to the area it occupies most. And it will snap to the other side by simply dragging and dropping. Normal max/min/restore/close buttons still work as usual. Alt+Double-clicking the title bar, maximizes to grid as well. Double-clicking the title bar works normally.

If you have different size grid-areas, when you drag and drop (after maxing to grid) the window will resize to fit in the new grid-area.

 

[jiffylube1024]

Originally posted by: blakehew
You learn something new every day 🙂 Thanks

Betcha can't say that 3 times fast 😉 .

 

[Madellga]

I knew the first one but not the Nvidia.

Thanks for the tip 🙂

PS: I have also a Dell 2405 and that was my only "issue" with this monitor size: organizing the windows....

 

[Reiniku]

Are thre any programs that can handle this if I were say.. on ati drivers? I think the built-in windows functions are just okay.