Unwanted full screen click

[Don Phillipson]

A difference between Win7 and WinXP was that any Win7 window moved
to the top edge of the screen immediately expanded to fill the screen.
It appears that a recent upgrade to WinXP (Feb. or March 2014) imposed
this feature on WinXP, which I for one find irritating. It happens all the
time,
useful once every three or four occasions, otherwise an unwanted delay.

Can this single unwanted feature be uninstalled?

 

[Nil]

A difference between Win7 and WinXP was that any Win7 window moved
to the top edge of the screen immediately expanded to fill the
screen. It appears that a recent upgrade to WinXP (Feb. or March
2014) imposed this feature on WinXP, which I for one find
irritating. It happens all the time,
useful once every three or four occasions, otherwise an unwanted
delay.

Can this single unwanted feature be uninstalled?

I doubt that it's due to any recent Microsoft. None of the several XP
machines I'm in regular contact with do this, and I'm sure that
Microsoft has not been adding any new features lately, since support
for the OS will end in about a week.

The feature in Windows 7 is called "Snap". I see there's a utility
called "Aerosnap" that will add the feature to XP. I'm sure you would
know if you had installed it. Otherwise, Snap is not a feature of XP.

Maybe you're accidentally double-clicking the title bar?

 

[Paul in Houston TX]

A difference between Win7 and WinXP was that any Win7 window moved
to the top edge of the screen immediately expanded to fill the screen.
It appears that a recent upgrade to WinXP (Feb. or March 2014) imposed
this feature on WinXP, which I for one find irritating. It happens all the
time,
useful once every three or four occasions, otherwise an unwanted delay.

Can this single unwanted feature be uninstalled?

I don't have a solution, just wanted to say that
neither my xp or w7 machines do that.
Nil mentioned Aero... I deleted that on day one.

 

[Paul]

A difference between Win7 and WinXP was that any Win7 window moved
to the top edge of the screen immediately expanded to fill the screen.
It appears that a recent upgrade to WinXP (Feb. or March 2014) imposed
this feature on WinXP, which I for one find irritating. It happens all the
time,
useful once every three or four occasions, otherwise an unwanted delay.

Can this single unwanted feature be uninstalled?

Disabling Aero Snap is described here. They hide the settings
on Windows 7, in the mouse controls.

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/wind...e-drag-window-arranging-feature-in-windows-7/

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

Other irritating graphical effects are covered in some video
settings area. An example is the "Visual Effects" tab shown here.

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/5473/make-aero-peek-display-instantly-or-disable-it-in-windows-7/

So that's Windows 7.

*******

WinXP has various full screen modes. Double-clicking the top bar of a
Window makes it full screen. Another example is an irritating thing
you can do where a Command Prompt takes up the entire screen. Each
OS is full of tricks. Some of these things, involved hot key combos.

If you have a bad mouse switch, dragging a window can trigger an
intermittent contact of the mouse switch, leading to a double click
being registered. And then the window will go full screen. I have a
worn out Logitech mouse with the intermittent switch problem.

There's no particular reason for feature changes to WinXP at this
point in time. The windowing subsystem is quite different than
Windows 7, and it would take a significant effort to back port
the way it was done on Windows 7 exactly.

Someone makes a third-party add-on for WinXP, that does
Aero Snap like things. This uses .NET.

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/14238/add-windows-7s-aerosnap-feature-to-vista-and-xp/

( http://www.aerosnap.de/index_eng.htm )

Paul

 

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

In message <[email protected]>, Paul <[email protected]>
writes:
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Window makes it full screen. Another example is an irritating thing
you can do where a Command Prompt takes up the entire screen. Each

Alt-enter will toggle a command prompt between in-a-window and
full-screen-character-mode.
[]

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Alt-enter will toggle a command prompt between in-a-window and
full-screen-character-mode.

Did it do that in Windows XP? I can't remember. It doesn't do it in
Windows 8.

 

[BillW50]

Did it do that in Windows XP? I can't remember. It doesn't do it in
Windows 8.

Yes it does it in XP and I use it all of the time. Windows 7/8 doesn't
unless you use a DOS VM.

 

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

Yes it does it in XP and I use it all of the time. Windows 7/8 doesn't
unless you use a DOS VM.

Yes, XP - I didn't realise it didn't in 7, but you're right. One more
old trick lost (-:!