Windows 7 Taskforce

Aero Snap should not be enabled & disabled with "Animate windows when minimizing and maximizing"

Submitted by KevinN206 on December 31, 2008 to Annoyance, Usability

Problem: Windows 7 Build 6956

Half-screen & Fullscreen Snap

Disabling the animation while minimizing and maximizing windows, the "half-screen and fullscreen snap" feature stops working.

One might argue that most average users don't do this, but whoever disable this setting may never realize that half-screen snap even existed. I tried to demonstrate the feature to a friend of mine, and it didn't work. It took me about 5 minutes to realize I had disabled some visual settings like in Vista.

I like the windows to pop-up instantly rather than going through the fancy animations. The problem here is that we're disabling the "animate" part of the "minimizing and maximizing" feature. We're not disabling the min and max features themselves. So having Half-Screen Snap disabled makes no sense, since this is disabling a useful feature rather than disabling the "animating process" of the feature.

In fact, I don't see how Aero Snap relates to the animate part of the min and max features. This grouping is simply wrong, and needs to be addressed.

Cliff:
Disabling "animate windows when minimizing and maximizing" also disable "half-screen snap".

Solution: Make a separate option for "Aero Snap" somewhere more logical (maybe in Personalization).

Severity: High

Impact: Medium

Status: Not fixed

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