hay Windows users, try something plz

[Spectere]

I, uh, accidentally discovered something.  I think it might be a Vista thing, but I dunno.  It works both with and without DWM (i.e. full Aero) enabled for what it's worth.  All of you, try it nao (since my XP install's head asploded for no apparent reason)...it'll only take a second.

Press CTRL+WIN+any arrow key.  If the window fills up half of the screen in the direction you picked (i.e. CTRL+WIN+Left would fill the left half of the screen with the current window) then it works.  If it does work, please post what OS version and service release level you're using*.

The main reason I ask is because I did this accidentally (I tried to CTRL+Left to go back a word and wound up hitting CTRL+WIN+Left by accident) and it doesn't seem to be officially documented anywhere, strangely enough.

*Vista Ultimate 64-bit with Service Pack 1 for me's.

Hi, I'm an idiot.  Solution below.

[Sneaky]

I get jack diddly with xp pro sp 2 D:

[Bobbias]

Same with XP home SP2.

That's a pretty cool feature. Awesome for manually tiling windows in the place you want them.

[vladgd]

i recall doing "alt ctrl directional key" on the xp computers in high school to flip the screen around, but it never did seem to work on my pc.

[Alice]

can't test, pried all of the windows keys out of my keyboards.  sry

[NewF]

XP SP 2, tried ctrl+win+all directions, nothing.

[Bobbias]

Same.

[MortifiedocAlot]

Nothing captain.

[Spectere]

Ah, I figured it out.  It's a feature in Desktop Fusion.  I totally forgot that program ran in the background.

SO YEAH, THAT PROBABLY EXPLAINS WHY MICROSOFT DOESN'T HAVE THAT FEATURE DOCUMENTED.

[MortifiedocAlot]

and the plot thickens.

[Zakamiro]

as the thread derails.