Aero Snap - Turn On or Off

Jonathan_King · 11 Jan 2010

Coolness said:

Hi, the tutorial says, that if you dont have aero on, it will not work. However, this poster Is this happening to anyone else?
Says it will anyway. Whos right? And if he is, please fix it. Its confusing. =)

The poster in that link could be wrong about not having Aero on.

Coolness · 11 Jan 2010

Jonathan_King said:

Coolness said:

Hi, the tutorial says, that if you dont have aero on, it will not work. However, this poster Is this happening to anyone else?
Says it will anyway. Whos right? And if he is, please fix it. Its confusing. =)

The poster in that link could be wrong about not having Aero on.

Sure. But im just asking Brink, Maby test it out?

Brink · 11 Jan 2010

Hello Coolness,

You do not have to have a Aero theme selected for Aero Snap to work, but your system does need to meet the requirements for Aero for it to be supported. I updated the tutorial to help clarify this better though. :)

While Aero Snap works in all available themes in Windows 7, if your system does need to meet the requirements for Aero for Aero Snap to be supported, then Aero Snap will not work even when turned on.

Coolness · 12 Jan 2010

Brink said:

Hello Coolness,

You do not have to have a Aero theme selected for Aero Snap to work, but your system does need to meet the requirements for Aero for it to be supported. I updated the tutorial to help clarify this better though. :)

While Aero Snap works in all available themes in Windows 7, if your system does need to meet the requirements for Aero for Aero Snap to be supported, then Aero Snap will not work even when turned on.

Thanks! A lot better now. Hope you didnt mind my tone, english isnt my native, so i couldnt pick another set of works to describe the issue.

Brink · 13 Jan 2010

You're welcome Coolness. I didn't notice any tone at all. :)

apb · 20 Sep 2014

Can the maximize feature be turned off without turning off the vertical stretch feature? I.e., I do not want the window to be maximized when I drag the title bar across the [e.g. vertical] boundary, but I DO want the window to be stretched to its maximal height when I drag the sizing margin across the [e.g. vertical] boundary. Seems like the two are all or none, but maybe not?

Brink · 20 Sep 2014

Hello apb,

Not that I'm aware of. It's an all or none setting.

jonnyhotchkiss · 05 Feb 2016

Robert II said:

The steps described above will indeed turn Aero Snap on and off.

Trick is, despite the really precise name for the tick box ...

"Prevent windows from being automatically arranged
when moved to the edge of the screen"

.... that same tick box actually also inhibits Aero Shake.

The name of the registry key is right: it doesn't just control Aero Snap, it controls both Aero Snap *and* Aero Shake.

So, a tick box with a fourteen-word label that actually does something quite different at the same time.

Nice one, guys...

Robert.

A few people I think are in the same boat as me, and seeing as Robert's message is one of the few I understand I'll quote this one.

I fixed this previously, and forgot how, just googling to try and find the forum I shared my solution in... nada grrr. BUT, I think I've spotted 'it', if you want to be able to use winkey+arrow to move, and especially shift+winkey+arrow to shift window to other monitor, but don't want stupid snapping every time you're manually dragging a window...

Booted back into build with working combo described ^^, WindowArrangementActive is 1 but the annoyance is not present, luckily I've just noticed (will post back with sad news after reboot if I'm palm and egg faced wrong...) surely this must be it, re nomenclature...

Setting HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\DockMoving to 0 will... well, guess.

This doesn't disable the shake... which I'm considering also turning off (unless I can reclaim winkey&d for something more useful)

catalogue · 13 Jan 2020

So Windows doesn't actually use the word "Aero" at all in reference to the functions that somehow have the name Aero Snap, correct? - likewise I think for other things like animations and transparency. i.e. there may be a theme called Aero but the settings controlling the snap functions use terms such as "desktop composition" and not the word "Aero", which doesn't appear in Control Panel or anywhere else in the OS in this context -? I'm asking because when you search in Control Panel for "Aero" the only results are (1) desktop themes and (2) an Aero troubleshooter.

Brink · 13 Jan 2020

catalogue said:

So Windows doesn't actually use the word "Aero" at all in reference to the functions that somehow have the name Aero Snap, correct? - likewise I think for other things like animations and transparency. i.e. there may be a theme called Aero but the settings controlling the snap functions use terms such as "desktop composition" and not the word "Aero", which doesn't appear in Control Panel or anywhere else in the OS in this context -? I'm asking because when you search in Control Panel for "Aero" the only results are (1) desktop themes and (2) an Aero troubleshooter.

The "Aero Snap" feature will not be referenced by that by any specific setting. Instead, it's part of the "Aero" interface.

This below is about the only reference left I can find for "Aero Snap" in Windows 7.

Windows Aero - Wikipedia

Funny enough, it's just called "Snap" now in Windows 10.

Aero Snap - Turn On or Off

HOW TO - turn off snaptoedge (only disable drag)