How to Disable Aero Snap in Windows 7?

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Recently we posted 2 tutorials for disabling "Aero Shake" and "Aero Peek" features in Windows 7:

How to Disable Aero Shake in Windows 7?

How to Disable Aero Peek in Windows 7?

And today, we'll learn how to disable "Aero Snap" feature in Windows 7.

"Aero Snap" lets you minimize, maximize or resize programs windows by dragging-n-dropping them to the screen corners e.g. you can maximize a window by dragging-n-dropping it to the top of screen.

If you want to disable "Aero Snap" in Windows 7, you can follow these simple steps:

1. Open Control Panel and click on "Ease of Access Center" icon.

2. Now click on "Make it easier to focus on tasks" link present at the end.

3. Now enable "Prevent windows from being automatically arranged when moved to the edge of the screen" option given at last and click on Apply button.

4. That's it. It'll disable "Aero Snap" feature in Windows 7.

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Arbadacarba

Any ideas on how to disable some but not all of the snap features? The Sides are great, but I hate the maximize function for the top.
VG

^^ No. You can only completely disable the feature.
Cruise

Oh.. no I'm not going to do this.. I love that functionality ;) :D

Anyways Vishal, You never get tired of discovering things inside Windows :) Cheers mate..!
KnifeySpooney

Heh, I didn't know of this setting and ended up changing registry key instead.

For reference, here's the key I changed:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowArrangementActive = 0
Cringe

I agree with Arbadacarba, I love the snap to sides but the maximize at top is annoying and redundant to me. Might as well remove the maximize button on the window if this can't be changed.
nambinhvu

Personally, I like the maximize feature, not for the fact that it can maximize, but you can pull a maximized window away and it'll shrink back to its original size and shape. The side ones are useless for me because I don't like having my windows half screened. I either maximize or custom shrink, so I can fit multiple windows. Only being able to see two windows is not enough when you got multiple chat messengers going. Maybe in the future they could add a feature to have 3 snap points on each side, so you can use 1/6th the screen for each window. I probably wouldn't use that either though haha I just like being able to pull down and move a maximized window without having to minimize it first.
Jay

It's probably important to note that disabling snap also disables shake - I personally don't like snap but shake is one I don't mind having available.
PAT

Thanks. I hate this snap windows 7. It causes problems in photoshop cs4.
nambinhvu

@ PAT, so disable it then. lol
Mephano

As one who typically works between at least three windows, and often 4 or 5, I never have anything maximized and need to be able to move them around when and where I want without Windows taking over and obscuring things I need to see. The snap/maximize feature was driving me crazy and definitely had bit of a negative impact on productivity.

Thanks for publishing this way to turn the @$#% thing off.