Useful little gadget for windows

[Sysman]

Thanks chaps. I can reproduce that by moving to the top of the screen.

The window goes back to its original size by dragging it down off the top, as well.

WDDS. Also you could be doing an accidental double click.

Apparently Virtual Box 4.1 will now support Aero for Windows 7 guests. Haven't tried it yet.

For Aero support, click the "Direct 3D support (Experimental)" box when installing Guest Additions. It pops up this box:

This system supports the Windows Aero (WDDM) interface.
VirtualBox support for this feature is experimental and should not be
used on production systems yet.

Would you like to install basic Direct3D support instead?

This defaults to Yes, where you get:

Windows is currently not running in safe mode so Direct3D support
cannot be installed.

Answer No, and you get this instead:

Please note that in order to use 3D acceleration the virtual machine
requires at least 128 MB of video memory with 256 MB recommended if
you wish to use it with multiple monitors

And then you can install it.

I've just done it and it worked, but when the system came up it was rather slow, so I've gone back to ordinary. I might try it again on the office PC which is a bit faster.

[Bunk]

WTS

If I remember rightly, dragging a window to the top maximises it, to the left or right makes it fill half the screen, and shaking it hides the other windows or something like that.

[VectraMan]

Are you sure it's not cos you are moving it to the top of the screen? That is one of the new aero features.

WDDS. Also you could be doing an accidental double click.

Apparently Virtual Box 4.1 will now support Aero for Windows 7 guests. Haven't tried it yet.

[doodab]

Nice one.

Another problem for y'all

In Windows 7, if I move a Window too quickly, the thing will often maximise on me, and that's not what I'm after. I can't find this documented anywhere. How do I switch this behaviour off?

I can't reproduce this on the Win7 VM here, maybe because being in a VM it hasn't got the full video support, maybe just 'cos it's too slow when doing that.

Are you sure it's not cos you are moving it to the top of the screen? That is one of the new aero features.

[Spacecadet]

Nice one.

Another problem for y'all

In Windows 7, if I move a Window too quickly, the thing will often maximise on me, and that's not what I'm after. I can't find this documented anywhere. How do I switch this behaviour off?

I can't reproduce this on the Win7 VM here, maybe because being in a VM it hasn't got the full video support, maybe just 'cos it's too slow when doing that.

dragging the window by the title bar to the top of the screen will maximize it. never heard of moving it too fast having that effect

[Sysman]

Did you know (I didn't until the other day) that you can use windows button + the cursor keys to position your windows? Quite handy that.

Nice one.

Another problem for y'all

In Windows 7, if I move a Window too quickly, the thing will often maximise on me, and that's not what I'm after. I can't find this documented anywhere. How do I switch this behaviour off?

I can't reproduce this on the Win7 VM here, maybe because being in a VM it hasn't got the full video support, maybe just 'cos it's too slow when doing that.

[doodab]

That is handy.

Antoher one I use a lot is typing windows, c, m, d, ctrl + shift + enter, which will give you an elevated command prompt much more quickly than finding the program and right clicking etc. It will work with explorer and other things as well.

[VectraMan]

Did you know (I didn't until the other day) that you can use windows button + the cursor keys to position your windows? Quite handy that.

[doodab]

Do you mean the way IE9 shows each tab as a separate widget when you hover over the taskbar, and Chrome doesn't? Or actual multiple chrome windows rather than tabs?

Multiple chrome windows. If you go into task manager, ctrl-click to select a couple of chrome windows and select "Tile Vertically" or "Tile Horizontally" nothing happens. Most other things do what you would expect.

[d000hg]

I have noticed that google chrome is broken with respect to tiling (i.e. show windows stacked / side by side). Very annoying.

Do you mean the way IE9 shows each tab as a separate widget when you hover over the taskbar, and Chrome doesn't? Or actual multiple chrome windows rather than tabs?

[doodab]

AquaSnap

A kind of enhanced aero.

I have noticed that google chrome is broken with respect to tiling (i.e. show windows stacked / side by side). Very annoying.