Possible to “snap” top/bottom instead of just left/right in Windows 7?

Question

I know you can do Windows + Left to put a window in the left half of the screen. Is there a feature that will do top bottom?

Answer 1

No. The only snap options available are:

• left half snap (Windows + left)
• right half snap (Windows + right)
• full screen height snap (Windows + shift + up)
• maximized snap (Windows + up)
• "un-snap" (Windows + down)
• snap to next monitor / display (Windows + shift + (left or right))

Edit: other awesome combinations you might like:

• minimize all (Windows + m)
• minimize all but active window (Windows + Home)
• Aero peek (view Desktop, all Windows become transparent) (Windows + space)

Answer 2

I don't have a windows 7 machine in front of me currently, but ever since Windows 95 (or even before possibly), there has been the option to tile windows horizontally. Minimize everything but two windows you want to view top and bottom, right click the task bar, and select Tile Windows horizontally. It will size each window to take up half the vertical screen area. This is not useful to do to a single window, and as another answer stated, there is no keyboard shortcut for it, but I find it handy sometimes.

Correction: on Windows 7, this is called "Show windows stacked"

Answer 3

WindowSpace provides this functionality. To do what you're asking for:

• Go to the "Moving and Resizing" tab in Settings
• For "Top edge:", choose "Move to the top side"
• For "Bottom edge:", choose "Move to the bottom side"

Screenshot:

Answer 4

I wrote a little AutoHotKey script to snap the windows top and bottom because I was frustrated about this too. You can download it from my website: http://www.pixelchef.net/how-snap-windows-horizontally-windows-7