I'm afraid I have to disagree regarding the usefulness of the auto snap function.
I am often working on a 14" laptop so space is a premium. When trying to put two windows side-by-side (i.e. Windows Explorer), I find myself constantly frustrated...
If you're trying to get them side by side, then drag each window to the opposite side of the screen. Aero Snap will make them both take up half the screen next to each other.
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The problem with windows "auto-maximizing" has to do with one of two things: a) your mouse-pad settings... b) Windows 7 and 8 Ease Of Access features.
Under Ease of Access features, Auto-maximizing is enabled by default, and lets you drag any open application window to the top of your screen...
In windows XP I could right click and choose to UNcheck the option in each folder for Auto arrange icons.
Then every time a new file was created in that folder it would appear at the end after all other files.
How can we get win7 to do the same? ( I often work within many folders and lots...
I've never been bit by this as I always save my work before walking away from the computer, but this may be of help to some of you.
https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/6042-windows-update-enable-disable-automatic-restart.html
How do I stop Windows from auto-detecting hardware and then installing drivers for it? I'm trying to upgrade my sound card and video drivers. I uninstall the current "windows default" drivers, reboot, and before I can even start the installation process for the drivers I've downloaded, Windows...
I have a Linksys WUSB600N wireless network adapter. I used it in Vista using Linksys's driver for it, and it worked great. Now Windows 7 has installed it's own driver for it and... well, the driver sucks. Frequent connection drops, bad signal strength, etc etc. I've been trying to uninstall the...
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