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How to Prevent Windows 10 to Maximize Screens Automatically
Disable Auto-Maximization on the Edge of the Screen
When you drag a window to the top of your screen, it maximizes.
Yes, you can disable this annoying, meaningless, senseless, stupid feature… developed by Microsoft.
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Anyways.
Go to run and start control.exe
Make sure “Small Icons” is selected on the menu, because “small” means “everything” in Microsoft language. It has nothing to do with “small”.
You should see this:
Click “Ease of Access Center” (whatever that means in the Microsoft world). So, click on that.
This will come up:
Click on “Make the mouse easier to use”.
Even though this feature has nothing to do with your mouse, you can disable it from there.
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Next screen that will come up will be this one:
Here you go. Click on that check box.
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Please leave comment, and don’t hesitate to offend Microsoft developers in the comment section. They need all your love!
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It’s a setting in an operating system, what’s with all the snarkiness in this “annoying, meaningless, senseless, stupid post” ? See how remarkably unhelpful all the editorializing is?
Have a nice day.
Thank you, save may day. As I’m forced to use this annoying, meaningless, senseless, stupid “operating system”… developed by Microsoft, at least now there is one annoying, meaningless, senseless, stupid feature less. What a relief.
Oh my gosh. Thank you for the solution and the validation that this is a ridiculous feature. I went from a Mac to a PC as part of my new job and I completely resonated with the picture on this article when I saw it. Grrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!
Awesome! Top notch article! Worked great, I should have done this long ago. Windows 10, version 2004. It still worked for me. And ofc the “small icons” options in the menu in Control.exe, was grayed out… large icons was selected, but it still worked (Ofc, it has nothing to do with this “feature”, but then again, this is Windows… you never know! As seen from where MS categorized this very function under “Make the mouse easier to use”).
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Excellent help. Got right to the point and all steps well presented, fixed problem.
It’s a setting in an operating system, what’s with all the snarkiness in this “annoying, meaningless, senseless, stupid post” ? See how remarkably unhelpful all the editorializing is?
Have a nice day.
Thank you, save may day. As I’m forced to use this annoying, meaningless, senseless, stupid “operating system”… developed by Microsoft, at least now there is one annoying, meaningless, senseless, stupid feature less. What a relief.
Didn’t work at all. Turned off all snapping features and checked the box you reference under mouse settings and under keyboard settings
Thanks. Just what I wanted (after other sites didn’t help).
it didn’t work – the window still maximizes
Oh my gosh. Thank you for the solution and the validation that this is a ridiculous feature. I went from a Mac to a PC as part of my new job and I completely resonated with the picture on this article when I saw it. Grrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!
thank-you … i agree with your view about such features
thanks for the help! the system is almost deliberately unintuitive…
Awesome! Top notch article! Worked great, I should have done this long ago. Windows 10, version 2004. It still worked for me. And ofc the “small icons” options in the menu in Control.exe, was grayed out… large icons was selected, but it still worked (Ofc, it has nothing to do with this “feature”, but then again, this is Windows… you never know! As seen from where MS categorized this very function under “Make the mouse easier to use”).
THANK YOU!!!!! Worked perfect… I looked everywhere in the display settings, never thought to look in the mouse settings…
The setting is now under “system” – “multi-tasking”
Sorry, that doesn’t work after the latest May update