Toolbar element or tray icon designed to shift the active window to specific locations.
Toolbar element or tray icon designed to shift the active window to specific locations.
Windows frequently opens new Explorer windows in unexpected locations on the desktop. Is there a toolbar button or system tray icon that can relocate the current window to a specific spot I've defined?
In my own experience, the first window opened will typically open in the last position it was in before being closed. After that it can be a crapshoot based on the first windows position, and have yet to find a way to make a third one open somewhere sensical, so I feel your pain.
I have it set for my first to open in the bottom left quad of the screen. The second one opens above that. Typically, the third will open pretty much centered, but not always. I have yet to figure the rhyme or reason to it, so good luck. Maybe we can both learn something.
The problem is maintaining the position of my first window at the bottom-right corner. If I set it that way and then open a second window, usually defaulting to the top-left, closing the first before opening the second causes it to drift away. It's frustrating. There are extensions for Chrome (like Window Resizer) that let me adjust the size and position of windows with a mouse click. I'd like a similar feature in Explorer, even if the size adjustment isn't as critical there.
If you're running Win11, I'm completely confused.
On my Win10 system, when I dragged the explorer window and closed it at that spot, it reopened exactly where it was closed.
Somehow, follow-up windows appear above the old one but slightly shifted down.
They all open this way, and once a new window reaches the taskbar, the next one pops up at the very top of the screen.
Spoiler: Screenshot (click here to view)
Oh, I'm using a custom Win10 GUI, which makes my desktop look like Win7.
Maybe this is why my windows open in such an organized manner.
The exact offset corresponds to the toolbar's pixel height, positioned downward and to the right.