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How To Vertically Snap Windows on a Portrait PC Monitor
Introducing FancyZones, customizable window panes
It’s the little things in life that bring a smile to your face. I’ve been window snapping left and right to increase my productivity for as long as I can remember.
My dual 29" monitors were always nice and evenly divided; rearranging them was a snap — pun intended. But it wasn’t until I decided to rotate my left monitor to portrait mode that dark days descended.
If you’ve clicked this article and you’ve made it this far, then you know exactly what I’m talking about. When I dragged my email window to the top, it covered the whole portrait screen and nothing happened when I tried dragging Spotify to the bottom.
Apparently Microsoft didn’t realize that left and right window snapping illogical for a monitor in portrait mode.
My heart was sunk. I scoured Google for answers, but instead found bunch of people with the same problem. Sidebar: searching for “window snapping on Windows 10” is just keyword soup… it was a nightmare.
I’d been using a deprecated tool called WinSplit Revolution as a stopgap until I recently came across a utility called FancyZones. After vertically…
