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I know - it sounds like a bad tabloid article.
However, I did discover something that I'm amazed and appalled I didn't know, because it's so simple, so handy, and because I've been using Windows for ever. For. Ever.
Hover your mouse over the top edge of a non -maximised window like you're about to grab the resize edge and resize. Instead of clicking and dragging to resize, double-click. The window is maximised vertically.
Feel free to tell me that's so 2002, but I absolutely love finding out new things about something you think you know so well.
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Chris Maunder
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Try dragging the window edge to the top, it does the same thing.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Whoa! That's crazy!
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Chris Maunder
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Did you really not know that? 
/ravi
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Now try grabbing the window by the caption bar and dragging it until the mouse cursor gets to the right edge of the screen.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Yeah - I use an add-in on the Mac to do this because I miss it so much. Window+arrows do the same thing.
But my fave: grab the caption bar and "shake" the window.
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Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: But my fave: grab the caption bar and "shake" the window.
That's what it is! I was sitting here trying to remember that magic trick.
One odd thing thing with the Explorer window. Even though it does not have the good old system menu icon in the upper left corner, you can still click where it is supposed to be and get the popup menu. Yeah, I know it's not quite as exciting  .
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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I only get a window based menu there, nothing to do with Explorer specifically, and if I couldn't move or size a window without that menu, I'd go look for some train tracks to sleep on today.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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I did say it is odd, not great . You can also double-click on the area to close Explorer, which is clearly a lot easier than clicking the [X] button in the other corner  .
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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SoMad wrote: You can also double-click on the area to close Explorer
Yes, as I just found out looking for the menu. 
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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And dragging the title bar to the top maximises the window. This is all Weven stuff (except the title-bar and window-menu double-click, which are way old), introduced at the same time as the drag-left and drag-right window functions.
I'm certain that it was all discussed in the lounge at the time, so we're in Leslie country, here.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I think double-clicking the title to maximize/restore goes back at least to Win 3.
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It does, but that's not what he's talking about.
/ravi
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Precisely. The beauty is in the subtlety.
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Chris Maunder
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That is cool. I didn't know either and it work in Windows 8.
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Cool I never knew that either. Only works vertical, I guess that makes sense.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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If you have dual monitors you get third party tools that allows you to middle click to move the window to your 2nd screen. It also allows you to drag a maximized window to another screen. Comes in quite handy sometimes. Here's the one I use: Click[^]
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That was introduced in Weven; I'm sure it was mentioned here, which is why I knew about it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Funny thing is, I remember reading that post.
Marc
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Incidentally, regarding my comment in the older thread, I discovered that if you drag the border to the top without releasing it and then drag it back and release, dragging it again immediately (before clicking anywhere else) disables the function, so only the top of the window expands, and the bottom stays where it was.
[edit] A bit more testing reveals that if you drag to the top then hit Esc before releasing, it has the same effect, but is slightly easier to do.
If they had decent user guides, we wouldn't have to find this stuff for ourselves.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Wonder why that doesn't work horizontally, also ?>
« I am putting myself to the fullest possible use which is all, I think, that any conscious entity can ever hope to do » HAL (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer) in "2001, A Space Odyssey"
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The obvious answer would be: "Because it would drive me up the bleeding wall!"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Now you've got a tabloid heading.
Marc
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...and another.
Oh, we could go on all day
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Chris Maunder
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