Enable or Disable Maximized Window Dragging in Windows 10

Night Hawk · 24 Oct 2015

Those should come in handy for anyone with dual displays and lacking a 3rd party app like UltraMON or DisplayFusion which offers a move button which in many cases will actually fail to appear depending on the type of window. you have open.

Here I still end up dragging windows between displays at times as well as for the Virtual Desktops option to for dragging maximized windows onto another desktop.

Brink · 24 Oct 2015

The good news is that when you have drag maximized windows disabled, you'll still be able to minimize the window to then be able to drag it where you like.

This is mostly good for when you're always dragging a maximized window by mistake somehow.

Night Hawk · 24 Oct 2015

When looking back at the previous versions I was finding the name had changed for the registry value while the location was still the same. On 7 for example that would be the "DragFullWindows REG_SZ 1" item you would look for.

I've had to drag minimized windows on occasions before and the one annoyance seen is when not wanting a window maximized when bumping it into the far edge of the screen when trying to line up a few windows.

Warluck · 12 Dec 2017

Bonjour,
I'm having an issue after uninstalling Display Fusion.

Now I can not drag a maximized window from one scree to an other without activating Aero Snap (which I hate). Even if I disable the Aero snap but change the registry key as shown above, it doesn't work.

Is there an other feature that would prevent dragging maximized windows other than the registry shown here?

Brink · 12 Dec 2017

Hello Warluck,

I'm not aware of any other way.