Easy way to resize a window to fit the whole screen?

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2013-10
  • Laurent

    I'm looking for a shortcut or an easy way to make a window fill the whole screen, but without maximizing it.

    Right now, I do this by moving the window in the top left corner of the screen then dragging the sides to make it fit the whole screen, but it's a bit tedious when it needs to be done several times.

    Is there any easy way to do this in Windows 7?

    • Answers
  • Karan

    Something like Sizer might be what you're looking for:

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  • PC Guru

    No it is not possible unless you use your mouse. You can maximize it by pressing F11 .

  • tomp

    You can drag the window to left side of the screen (Win + left arrow) to fill the left half of the screen and then drag just the one remaining side of the window to the other side of the screen.

  • sazpaz

    Windows key + up arrow will maximize it if it isn't already.


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  • enter image description here Jeromy Anglim

    This tool allows you to do this i think and provides keyboard shortcuts.

    http://code.google.com/p/sandipchitalesmacosxstuff/

  • Daryl Spitzer

    I found Divvy, which gives me what I needed (in a better way), even though it's not exactly what I was looking for. Check out the video at http://mizage.com/divvy/.