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Posted 14 November 2008 - 01:50 AM
So I've always had this as a minor frustration, but I'm taking the time to find out if there's a solution to the problem, and the problem is this;
Whenever I have an open set of documents (say two folder-trees) and I use the "Show Windows Side By Side" (SWSbS) option from right-clicking the taskbar, it always seems as though Windows puts them on the wrong sides of the screen. Specifically, if I have the C: drive showing in my first window, and the D: drive showing in my second window, I'll click the SWSbS option, and it will put my first window on the RIGHT side of the screen, and my second window on the LEFT.
This may not seem like a big deal, but logically they should be the other way, because then they would match up with the order of their taskbar buttons. When I go to access the LEFT window by clicking on its corresponding icon in the taskbar, I have to click on the RIGHT taskbar button.
It's a minor annoyance, but it's frustrating because it seems like the window placement is arbitrary. Is there any way to get Windows to look to the taskbar to figure out what order it should put the stacked windows in?
I've just gone with the manual CLICK>DRAG, CLICK>DRAG and moved the windows to where I want them, but this kind of defeats the purpose of HAVING the feature in the first place!
I just want to be able to have the right window match the right taskbar icon, and the left window match the left taskbar icon. Is this too much to ask???
In a related bit of frustration, why hasn't Windows been able to implement drag-n'move functionality of the taskbar icons yet (like tabs in Firefox). Sheesh!
I'm done with the venting now, but seriously, is there a solution to my main problem? Thanks for any replies!!
Whenever I have an open set of documents (say two folder-trees) and I use the "Show Windows Side By Side" (SWSbS) option from right-clicking the taskbar, it always seems as though Windows puts them on the wrong sides of the screen. Specifically, if I have the C: drive showing in my first window, and the D: drive showing in my second window, I'll click the SWSbS option, and it will put my first window on the RIGHT side of the screen, and my second window on the LEFT.
This may not seem like a big deal, but logically they should be the other way, because then they would match up with the order of their taskbar buttons. When I go to access the LEFT window by clicking on its corresponding icon in the taskbar, I have to click on the RIGHT taskbar button.
It's a minor annoyance, but it's frustrating because it seems like the window placement is arbitrary. Is there any way to get Windows to look to the taskbar to figure out what order it should put the stacked windows in?
I've just gone with the manual CLICK>DRAG, CLICK>DRAG and moved the windows to where I want them, but this kind of defeats the purpose of HAVING the feature in the first place!
I just want to be able to have the right window match the right taskbar icon, and the left window match the left taskbar icon. Is this too much to ask???
In a related bit of frustration, why hasn't Windows been able to implement drag-n'move functionality of the taskbar icons yet (like tabs in Firefox). Sheesh!
I'm done with the venting now, but seriously, is there a solution to my main problem? Thanks for any replies!!
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