XP / Vista: Tile Windows Side-by-Side or One-Over-Another

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Quick refresher how to tile windows vertically or horizontally. This works with vista, XP, 2000, 2003, and most other windows environments.


I know that we have created recipes about this in the past, but I wanted to refresh people on how easy it is to tile windows.

By clicking on the windows in the taskbar while holding down the CTRL key, you can select multiple windows at once. Once more than one is selected, you can tile them by right clicking on one of the entries in the taskbar and select the tile option from the context menu.

    1. Click the taskbar entry for the first window
    2. Hold down CTRL and click the second window
    (Both of these taskbar entries should now be colored differently)
    3. Right click one of the selected taskbar entries
    4. Select either tile vertically or tile horizontally from the context menu
 

4 Comments -


  1. bob said on October 20, 2008

    What’s the deal with vista replacing the simple “Tile”, with the clumsy “Side-by-Side” or “Stacked”?

    Can I change the label on the menu?

  2. Melanie said on March 22, 2009

    Was looking for a free version of WIN Tiles and found your recipe. It is simple and will do for the editing between programs I need to perform. Thanks for the recipe I don’t need to purchase WIN TILES now!!!!!

  3. Anonymous said on March 1, 2010

    Hi, i just learned something new, now i don`t have to shrink the boards, saves a lot of time.

    thank you

  4. Kerry Wicker said on January 24, 2011

    Not working for me. Is there an illustrated example?

 

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