The Windows 7 Whopper (Wikimedia commons)
As with many great discoveries, I some interesting Windows 7 window behaviors by accident. I was trying to move the cursor by word (control + right arrow), when I accidentally hit the Windows key instead of the control key, and the active window went flush with the right side of the screen, and expanded to fill the right half of the screen. This is much like the behavior when dragging a window to the right side of the screen, except that it works even when you have two monitors. Here’s a recap of the key combos I found:
Windows key + right arrow key: Right side of window becomes flush with right side screen, expands to the top and bottom of screen, left side of window is in the horizontal center of the screen.
Windows key + left arrow key: Left side of window becomes flush with left side of screen, expands to the top and bottom of screen, right side of window is the horizontal center of the screen.
Windows key + up arrow key: Window fully maximizes to the screen.
Windows key + down arrow key: Window minimizes.
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