did you know: show windows stacked, cascaded or side by side

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someone asked me if there were ways to vertically maximize more than two windows using aero snap (snap one window to the left hand side of the screen and a second to the right hand side dragging the windows or using the windows key + left and right arrow keys) and sure enough a taskbar option comes through for this!

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right click on a unused area of your taskbar and you can select show windows stacked

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up to three windows are maximized horizontally and stacked one after the other

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show windows side by side with three windows will vertically maximize and give each a third of the horizontal screen space

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if you have four windows, both stacked and side by side arrange the 4 windows the same as shown above.

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