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slipd

slipd

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Hi guys,

I'm using 2x identical screens, next to each other, and until really recently I was able to hold and drag an app (pdf reader/spreadsheet etc.) from my primary screen to my extended screen and maximise/work on it from there. Now though, whenever I try and drag my apps, they try to snap to the side of my primary screen. In my set up, the right hand side.

Any ideas? Is it a recent Windows (10) update thing maybe?

Thanks.
 
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hughtrimble said:
Can you get past that snap barrier at all using mouse drag?

How does the window behave when using the Win key + arrows to snap the window?
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So, I just tried to drag (mouse curser on the top bar of the window) an explorer window. As soon as the mouse curser hits the edge of the screen frame it tries to expand and snap it.
 
The only time I've seen drag& drop not work is if one of the programs is running as administrator and the other is not.
However, creating a shortcut to run a program as admin is not something which you'd do accidentally.

Wonder if any antivirus program might try and insulate or sandbox Windows Explorer and cause this?

EDIT: just to point out that my reply was totally not relevant. I didn't read the OP that closely and though this was drag&drop related. And for that running stuff as admin does interfere. No, this seems to do with snap to and those weird "helpful" stuff Microsoft do these days and I usually turn off.
 
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hughtrimble said:
But can you overcome that barrier and still move it to the next screen?
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I ask this as if you can't, then something's wrong. But if you can, then that's exactly been my experience where it'll suggest snapping to the edge of any screen before it then lets you overcome that and you can snap to the next screen.

That being said, I find the Win key + arrow shortcut more useful than the mouse drag and snap.
 
Bit obvious I know
But try dragging faster
If I don't it snaps to the first monitor
The other thing to check
At one point windows decided to swap my monitor positions
So main monitor according to windows
Was on the left not the right
So trying to drag off the left wouldn't work
As windows assumed there wasn't a monitor to the left of it
 
Mcnumpty2323 said:
Bit obvious I know
But try dragging faster
If I don't it snaps to the first monitor
The other thing to check
At one point windows decided to swap my monitor positions
So main monitor according to windows
Was on the left not the right
So trying to drag off the left wouldn't work
As windows assumed there wasn't a monitor to the left of it
Click to expand...
I'm an idiot... It's my new mouse's fault - slower dpi :D

It was as simple as me not dragging fast enough. Sorry, should have updated sooner.
 
Aha, this explains why I had the same thing when I got a higher DPI mouse a while back. I assumed it was a windows update that changed it so a mouse had to have a "run up" to get to the other side when dragging something. Was weird until I sussed I have to give the mouse some extra jip.
 
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