The Snap windows feature in Windows allows you to automatically resize and arrange windows on your screen.
Windows 11 includes a Snap Layouts feature that allows you to select how to snap the current window.
Starting with Windows 11 build 22557, Microsoft added a new way to snap windows into snap layouts that works wonderfully with both touch and mouse! To try it out, just drag a window to the top of the screen to reveal the snap layouts, drop the window on top of a zone to snap it, and use snap assist to finish building your layout.
This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable showing snap layouts when dragging a window to the top of the screen for your account in Windows 11.
Contents
- Option One: Enable or Disable Snap Layouts on Top of Screen in Settings
- Option Two: Enable or Disable Snap Layouts on Top of Screen using REG file
EXAMPLE: Show snap layouts when you drag a window to the top of the screen
1 Open Settings (Win+I).
2 Click/tap on System on the left side, and click/tap on Multitasking on the right side. (see screenshot below)
Open Multitasking settings
3 Click/tap on Snap windows on the right side to expand it open. (see screenshot below step 4)
4 Check (enable - default) or Uncheck (disable) Show snap layouts when I drag a window to the top of my screen for what you want.
The Show snap layouts when I drag a window to the top of my screen setting will be disabled and grayed out if Snap windows is not turned on.
5 You can now close Settings if you like.
1 Do step 2 (enable) or step 3 (disable) below for what you would like to do.
2 To Enable Snap Layouts on Top of Screen
This is the default setting.
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.
Enable_show_snap_layouts_when_drag_window_to_top_of_screen.reg
(Contents of REG file for reference)
Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
"WindowArrangementActive"="1"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"EnableSnapBar"=dword:000000013 To Disable Snap Layouts on Top of Screen
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.
Disable_show_snap_layouts_when_drag_window_to_top_of_screen.reg
(Contents of REG file for reference)
Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"EnableSnapBar"=dword:000000004 Save the .reg file to your desktop.
5 Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.
6 When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.
7 Either sign out and sign in or restart the computer to apply.
8 You can now delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.
That's it,
Shawn Brink
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