PC World - USA (2019-10)

108 PCWorld OCTOBER 2019

HERE’S HOW WINDOWS 10’S POWER TOYS APP

FANCYZONES INCLUDES

SNAP TEMPLATES, OR YOU

CAN CREATE YOUR OWN

When you snap a window to the side or

corner of the screen, what you’re doing is

telling the window to shrink (or expand) to

a predefined region of

the screen. What

FancyZones does is

allow you to select

from a list of templates

of predefined zones,

or you can create

your own.

What’s great about

the predefined

templates is that it

creates useful layouts

right away: three

columns of text that

might be well suited

for a widescreen

monitor, for example—

or, alternatively, a

“priority grid” that

widens the middle

column.

If none of these

work, you can also

create your own

zones. FancyZones

allows you to do this

either additively, by

creating zones that

can be resized; or via subtraction, where a

number of predefined zones can be

removed or adjusted. If you’re looking for a

way to quickly and easily rearrange windows

for Windows’ Snap feature, FancyZones

definitely seems worth a look.

...or you can “subtract” them from existing predefined regions.

You can create FancyZones from scratch, creating and resizing windows...