Use Windows Snap in Windows 8







1. To access the Snap feature using your mouse, move the pointer into the top left corner of the screen until you see a small picture of another open program (repeatedly clicking on this picture will cycle through the all your open programs). Without pressing any mouse buttons, slowly move the mouse pointer down the screen until a pop-up bar appears showing all open programs, then drag the program you want to snap to either the left or right spaces on the screen.

2. Here we see the weather forecast app Snapped to the left while we use the Bing Search app.

3. To perform this function on a touchscreen, simply drag in an already open application from the left hand of the screen, and the already open application will move to make way for it.

4. To change which screen is the primary one, simply drag the divider line from the smaller sized app towards the larger one.

5. Although it can look a bit odd, Windows Snap works with the Desktop, treating the whole of the Desktop as a single app (rather than treating each open Desktop app as a stand-alone program).

6. Snapping the Desktop to the side is also possible, although perhaps not so useful.

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