As with Aero Peek, Aero Snaps is one of the new Aero Desktop Enhancements in Windows 7. This sport is also aimed at window management, but this sentence with an eye towards deemphasizing the use of standard window controls, which are getting smaller and harder to use as we proceed to extremely high resolution displays. What Aero Snaps does, essentially, is leave a way to maximize, minimize, and stack windows side-by-side.
And it works using natural and easy-to-remember mouse movements that don't require precise mouse clicks. Backgrounder
With Windows's emphasis on multitasking and multiple open windows, it's often useful and essential to operate the sizing or set of the current, or focused, window. Historically, Windows has provided a bit of common UI controls for these needs. For example, most windows include standard Minimize, Maximize/Restore, and Close window buttons in the upper right corner. They can often be resized by dragging any bound of the window. And there are non-discoverable methods for resizing windows as well. For example, you can double-click anywhere in a window's title bar area to maximize it (or, if it's already maximized, restore it).
In Windows 7, Microsoft is augmenting these legacy window management methods with a new set of functionality called Aero Snaps. It's worth noting, however, that all of the older methods mentioned above will even work fine in Windows 7. So if you're used to doing things a peculiar way, you aren't losing any functionality. Aero Snaps is all additive. Aero Snaps
Aero Snaps provides a bit of new ways to lay and resize windows. And none of them actually require new onscreen controls, so they make fine with both the mouse and with Windows 7's new touch controls. These methods include: Maximize
Keyboard shortcut: WINKEY UP ARROW
To maximise the currently focused and floating window, click and carry the title bar area and pull the window up toward the top of the screen. When the pointer hits the top inch of the screen, the window will maximize.
Maximize vertically
Keyboard shortcut: WINKEY SHIFT UP ARROW
If you merely regard for the current window to expand vertically, both up and down (but not horizontally, or odd and right), you can catch the top or bottom border of the currently focused and floating window, and pull it towards the closest (top or bottom) edge of the screen. When the pointer hits the march of the screen, the window will maximize vertically.
Snap to the remaining position of screen
Keyboard shortcut: WINKEY LEFT ARROW
Multi-monitor support: As you repeatedly tap the keyboard shortcut, the windows moves left across the displays, snapping to screen edges as it goes
To catch the currently focused and floating window to the remaining slope of the screen, drag it to the left. When the pointer hits the remaining position of the screen, the window will click to that edge and occupy the leftmost 50 percent of the screen.
Snap to the good position of screen
Keyboard shortcut: WINKEY RIGHT ARROW
Multi-monitor support: As you repeatedly tap the keyboard shortcut, the windows moves right across the displays, snapping to screen edges as it goes
To catch the currently focused and floating window to the good position of the screen, drag it to the right. When the pointer hits the good position of the screen, the window will click to that edge and occupy the rightmost 50 percent of the screen.
The former two methods are frequently used together. So you may snap one window to the remaining position of the screen, one to the right, and then trail and drop files between them or do other similar tasks.
Secret: Windows Vista and previous Windows versions support snapping windows to the edges of the screen, but it's a lot more ponderous to use. To do so, CTRL-click the taskbar buttons for the windows you'd care to snap, right-click the Taskbar, and so choose Show windows side-by-side. This method no longer works with the new Windows 7 taskbar. Restore
Keyboard shortcut: WINKEY DOWN ARROW or WINKEY SHIFT DOWN ARROW
To fix a maximized or snapped window, simply pull it down from the top or other edge of the test by clicking and property in the title bar area. If you maximized or snapped the window using Aero Snaps, it will take to its former size and position.
Final thoughts
Aero Snaps is a great addition to Windows 7 because it mostly augments rather than replaces earlier methods for resizing and positioning windows. This works good for both mouse users and those who will access Windows 7 via its new touch controls. Again, nothing major, but Aero Snaps is one of very many small but useful new Windows 7 features that makes Microsoft's next operating system simpler than its predecessors.
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