The good MS giveth and the good MS taketh away
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I found out this little gem of a keyboard shortcut a month ago, Win + Left/Right Arrow.It would dock the active window to the side. It did the same thing as when you drag a window to the side and it fills half the screen. The gem part was it would allow you to dock to the middle half of a dual monitor setup. You could keep pressing the arrow and watch it cycle through all the sides. No more docking one window to the outer edge then moving and setting the width of the other window and then dragging the title bar up to fill the screen. It was like the first time someone used a lighter to start a fire instead of rubbing two sticks together. Life was good. I did an update today and it's all gone. No more Win + any arrow key. All of it. No warning. Just a reboot and nothing. Civilization has been cast back into the dark ages. I guess it's back to rubbing sticks together...
Brad If you think you can, you will. If you think you can't, you won't. Either way, you're right.
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I found out this little gem of a keyboard shortcut a month ago, Win + Left/Right Arrow.It would dock the active window to the side. It did the same thing as when you drag a window to the side and it fills half the screen. The gem part was it would allow you to dock to the middle half of a dual monitor setup. You could keep pressing the arrow and watch it cycle through all the sides. No more docking one window to the outer edge then moving and setting the width of the other window and then dragging the title bar up to fill the screen. It was like the first time someone used a lighter to start a fire instead of rubbing two sticks together. Life was good. I did an update today and it's all gone. No more Win + any arrow key. All of it. No warning. Just a reboot and nothing. Civilization has been cast back into the dark ages. I guess it's back to rubbing sticks together...
Brad If you think you can, you will. If you think you can't, you won't. Either way, you're right.
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I found out this little gem of a keyboard shortcut a month ago, Win + Left/Right Arrow.It would dock the active window to the side. It did the same thing as when you drag a window to the side and it fills half the screen. The gem part was it would allow you to dock to the middle half of a dual monitor setup. You could keep pressing the arrow and watch it cycle through all the sides. No more docking one window to the outer edge then moving and setting the width of the other window and then dragging the title bar up to fill the screen. It was like the first time someone used a lighter to start a fire instead of rubbing two sticks together. Life was good. I did an update today and it's all gone. No more Win + any arrow key. All of it. No warning. Just a reboot and nothing. Civilization has been cast back into the dark ages. I guess it's back to rubbing sticks together...
Brad If you think you can, you will. If you think you can't, you won't. Either way, you're right.
Still there for me, too. I just checked Windows Update and it says nothing new is waiting for me (except Bing Desktop, but that can go elephant itself...like it has for months now.)
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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Still there for me, too. I just checked Windows Update and it says nothing new is waiting for me (except Bing Desktop, but that can go elephant itself...like it has for months now.)
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
OriginalGriff wrote:
except Bing Desktop, but that can go elephant itself...like it has for months now.
:thumbsup: :laugh:
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I found out this little gem of a keyboard shortcut a month ago, Win + Left/Right Arrow.It would dock the active window to the side. It did the same thing as when you drag a window to the side and it fills half the screen. The gem part was it would allow you to dock to the middle half of a dual monitor setup. You could keep pressing the arrow and watch it cycle through all the sides. No more docking one window to the outer edge then moving and setting the width of the other window and then dragging the title bar up to fill the screen. It was like the first time someone used a lighter to start a fire instead of rubbing two sticks together. Life was good. I did an update today and it's all gone. No more Win + any arrow key. All of it. No warning. Just a reboot and nothing. Civilization has been cast back into the dark ages. I guess it's back to rubbing sticks together...
Brad If you think you can, you will. If you think you can't, you won't. Either way, you're right.
(just did) last 2 windows 7 updates and it did not changed that behavior.
Nihil obstat
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lewax00 wrote:
Ooh! Awesome! Thank you for pointing that out. Marc
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I found out this little gem of a keyboard shortcut a month ago, Win + Left/Right Arrow.It would dock the active window to the side. It did the same thing as when you drag a window to the side and it fills half the screen. The gem part was it would allow you to dock to the middle half of a dual monitor setup. You could keep pressing the arrow and watch it cycle through all the sides. No more docking one window to the outer edge then moving and setting the width of the other window and then dragging the title bar up to fill the screen. It was like the first time someone used a lighter to start a fire instead of rubbing two sticks together. Life was good. I did an update today and it's all gone. No more Win + any arrow key. All of it. No warning. Just a reboot and nothing. Civilization has been cast back into the dark ages. I guess it's back to rubbing sticks together...
Brad If you think you can, you will. If you think you can't, you won't. Either way, you're right.
Funny, I just discovered that today. I still had it at work this afternoon, so the domain will probably update tonight and get rid of it. :(
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Now I am even more miffed. At least it wouldn't be prejudice if they took it away from everybody. I'll try another reboot and see what happens. I'm not holding my breath. And I'm definitely not reinstalling Windows.
Brad If you think you can, you will. If you think you can't, you won't. Either way, you're right.
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Now I am even more miffed. At least it wouldn't be prejudice if they took it away from everybody. I'll try another reboot and see what happens. I'm not holding my breath. And I'm definitely not reinstalling Windows.
Brad If you think you can, you will. If you think you can't, you won't. Either way, you're right.
BRShroyer wrote:
reinstalling Windows
Yes, that would be pointless. After you reinstall, you'd get updates, and then before you know it.... :laugh:
BDF I often make very large prints from unexposed film, and every one of them turns out to be a picture of myself as I once dreamed I would be. -- BillWoodruff
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I found out this little gem of a keyboard shortcut a month ago, Win + Left/Right Arrow.It would dock the active window to the side. It did the same thing as when you drag a window to the side and it fills half the screen. The gem part was it would allow you to dock to the middle half of a dual monitor setup. You could keep pressing the arrow and watch it cycle through all the sides. No more docking one window to the outer edge then moving and setting the width of the other window and then dragging the title bar up to fill the screen. It was like the first time someone used a lighter to start a fire instead of rubbing two sticks together. Life was good. I did an update today and it's all gone. No more Win + any arrow key. All of it. No warning. Just a reboot and nothing. Civilization has been cast back into the dark ages. I guess it's back to rubbing sticks together...
Brad If you think you can, you will. If you think you can't, you won't. Either way, you're right.
