FancyZones in 5 Minutes (Beginner's Guide) | PowerToys Window Manager

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FancyZones (part of PowerToys) is a window manager utility for arranging and snapping windows into efficient layouts to improve the speed of your workflow and restore layouts quickly. FancyZones allows you to define a set of window locations for a desktop that are drag targets for windows. When you drag a window into a zone, the window is resized and repositioned to fill that zone. In this quick Beginner's Guide I break down how to get it installed and how to make custom layouts in just a few minutes.
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00:42 - Installation of PowerToys
01:30 - What is a FancyZone?
02:05 - FancyZone Settings
02:50 - Layout Editor & Customization
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Комментарии : 79

@AnthonyNardozza Год назад

I've had PowerToys installed for years and just finally tried FancyZones, well done intro!

@JamesMontemagno Год назад

Great to hear!

@bookerworm2717 Год назад

Loved it - thanks so much for helping me get acquainted with Fancy Zones.

@vxxx6783 8 месяцев назад

Nice job. Exactly what I needed to get it set-up quick, without missing out on work.

@tregytregster2425 Месяц назад

Great app and I really appreciate the quick and concise intro. Thanks.

@samsonstrings Месяц назад

This is exactly what I have been looking for. Oh Thanks a lot. Loved it.

@mohamedsakka2338 Год назад

thanks for your efforts you made it simple and lemme tell you this i am using this as a developer and it helpt alot thanks again

@REDPlys Год назад

HOLY SHIT MAN THANK YOUU BEEN LOOKING FOR SOMETHING LIKE THIS FOR A MINUTE!!! ❤

@bebl Год назад

So handy, thanks a lot for your video!

@TheReal03Z Год назад

Using this with the LGDulup is amazing! Thanks

@johnc4624 Год назад

Wow - super tool.. and well explained - bravo

@bamenvy 2 месяца назад

Thanks, dude. Great vid.

@prodvassey 10 месяцев назад

Amazing my man

@qojte 9 месяцев назад

Excellent vid!

@serialfx Год назад

Came back from Windows 11 because my PC is not fully supported. Missed the new snapping windows feature W11 had. Found this and couldn't be happier.

@satalaj 7 месяцев назад

Thanks for sharing

@frankiee2768 Год назад

this is great ty!

@user-uc8vh6ox1n 4 месяца назад

Thank you very much

@michbegl 6 месяцев назад

Thanks goat

@JohnHatchard 8 месяцев назад

Is there any way to configure fancy zone preset shortcuts to have specific apps automatically open within each zone? That would be the killer app for me to increase productivity. For example say using the priority grid (from left to right) have File Explorer, Microsoft Edge and Discord open by clicking one fancy zone custom preset.

@TabletPro 11 месяцев назад

would you consider doing a review of the tools for windows tablets in Tablet Pro STUDIO? They are unique tools like powertoys tools that you can't find anywhere else. Makes for interesting content and makes using desktop apps much much easier with pen and touch. comparable to keyboard and mouse speeds. Thank you James

@benoitb.3679 2 года назад

3:20 Stannis Baratheon: "Fewer." Idiocy aside, Power Tools looks super helpful! Never knew it existed at all, thanks :)

@wilsonvivas7362 11 месяцев назад

Great video Thank you! One question, how do you change from template 0 to template 1 on the screen? Thanks

@Wololoo88 4 месяца назад

Great video +1 like

@jorgjorgsen7528 Год назад

thanks helped me alor

@brandonwoodruff7248 Год назад

Does using power toys fancy zones with a single monitor LGCX 55 inch cause stuttering during streaming or recording to OBX?

@rikudouensof 2 года назад

Thanks James. James, Please, Can you help with a tutorial on how to Xaml bind a Viewmodel that has dependency injection in a viewmodel to a Xaml page in an Xamarin or MAUI solution. I have seen the dependency injection video, but when things get blow out of proportion because the viewmodel has injected input. Yes I can use datatype but cannot do the binding context in xaml that will allow me to do the "Source={Binding}"

@DiegoAguilera Год назад

Wish there could be a way to customize keyboard shortcuts to snap a window on an specific section of the grid

@batya7 Год назад

I'm having trouble setting the zones, then snapping the apps to the zones I create.

@manuelhayen872 Год назад

Hey man I got a specific app that I want to use it for but it doesnt work for on that app ... any fixes?

@clementj_ 9 дней назад

Thanks for the tutorial! However, I have a small issue: when I want to put a RU-vid video in full screen while I have defined a specific zone, the video goes full screen on the entire screen instead of just the defined zone. How can I fix this?

@youtubeseer1272 6 месяцев назад

Great video! thanks

@KevinGilmartin 10 месяцев назад

This is exactly what i needed to get my head around this, thank you. Do you know if there's a way to save your apps in place within the zones, so the always go there when you open them?

@JamesMontemagno 10 месяцев назад

Not that I know of but I think there is a feature request out there

@zb1348 2 месяца назад

Hey James , thanks for the intro .. is it possible to have like a massive virtual screen set up in fancy zones whereby , if I push the mouse to the edge or press -> it scrolls across , essentially having your monitor set up almost like a viewport to a much larger screen? Thanks

@clodes_sigdhart 7 месяцев назад

does anyone know if you can shuffle or randomize the apps' positions in order to protect OLED screens while working?

@yointoo Год назад

Is it possible to run an app fullscreen(focus mode) in a zone?

@MaestroStefanoPetrini Год назад

I need to restart my pc several times a day, and I obviously need windows to remember the size of my explorer and programs windows at restart. I threw in the toilet lot of precious time every time for decades due to this problem. Why when i close windows holding down shift makes the system remember the size of windows but on restart these sizes are not remembered anymore? What can I do to get out of this Windows nightmare?

@jblaze600 Год назад

I have a LG C1 48, I can’t shrink the canvas to 1920x1080. Is there a toggle or something?

@simplysurfing 6 месяцев назад

After all this hardwork and installing the software...one reboot and its all gone ?....or it remembers each unique folder by name and where it should open when a folder icon is double clicked ?

@utubewillyman 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for this. I found it FancyZones to be completely unusable until I watched this.

@oldgamer1330 7 месяцев назад

Can you just open single windows to saved sizes like an old program Winsize2.

@designy7677 7 месяцев назад

How did you delete the zone?

@seanys 5 месяцев назад

How do I set which layout gets used every time I hit shift and drag a window? How do I change which layout gets used when I've already hit shift and am dragging a window?

@The_Alpha_Kevin Год назад

hej great video but i cant skale my games anymore to the zones dont know why but maybe you can help and other windows wont skale too i have to do it manuelly

@pebblebeach65 8 месяцев назад

James, Can you change the resolution of a window within Fancy Zones, I thinking no, but it is worth asking. I have been using Fancy Zones for a while but until I watch you video I didn't know how much more is was capable of doing.

@Armis71 Год назад

With fancyzones, can you reboot and if you open certain apps will it remember which zones it was before and automatically goes to that zone?

@JamesMontemagno Год назад

I haven’t found a way to do that yet, but good feature request

@vleflvlkev 10 месяцев назад

I want to watch multiple youtube video lives, how do I get them to stay in fancyzones while full screen (dont want to see chrome window bar)

@MeepMeep88 Год назад

1:50 5:00 I'm having an issue where when you UNsnap it from the zone, it stays that size and shape... How do you make it so it reverts back to the original shape like how normal snap does it.. Kinda weird you didn't show any instances of it going back to its original shape

@kohimame Год назад

As far as I'm aware it does not snap back to its previous (normal) shape. I'm not sure if the issue's the same on Windows 11, though.

@Jay-jk8lh 10 месяцев назад

@@kohimame It looks like there is now an option for it - "Restore the original size of windows when unsnapping"

@manuelprates5502 9 месяцев назад

I can't do what you do at 4:58. Help! Mine just don't show to get dragged into a "zone" that I want

@jdjd5113 Год назад

I'm having trouble using FancyZones I have a screen Samsung 49" Curved screen S49A950, 5120x1440 a) The installation is going well b) splitting the screen works fine c) The placement of the different windows is fine but I maximize one of the windows in one of the splits on the screen maximize this window the entire screen and not just the individual partition area. So how do you set so that when you maximize a window it stays within the area of the screen to which you have assigned the window and does not fill the entire screen?

@JamesMontemagno Год назад

I hood down shift while dragging to have the window fill the partition

@jdjd5113 Год назад

@@JamesMontemagno It does not work, when I have maximized a window it cannot be moved, it is locked to appear all over the screen. Can't you tell exactly what you do to get maximum window in an area?

@JohnDoe-uc7et Год назад

Can you maximise an application over two sreens?

@kibagami25 7 месяцев назад

I've tried everything and you cannot. It seems that even when you hit f11 in a browser, the full screen kicks on and takes over the entire monitor. Still looking for that software that can fullscreen two video split screen

@xarain Год назад

Thank you for the nice intro. Can i share my "zone(s)" during a zoom meeting?

@JamesMontemagno Год назад

Yes! There is an app called region to share in the microsoft store. I’ll do a video for next week

@MattAnonymous 5 месяцев назад

Thanks Linus! 🤣

@swekiwi4517 Год назад

Thanks! But how do you make them snap so that there isn't a space between every window, as seen at 5:11?

@JamesMontemagno Год назад

In the fancy zone layout editor. Click edit and then adjust the "space around zones"

@swekiwi4517 Год назад

@@JamesMontemagno thank you, it worked!

@swekiwi4517 Год назад

@@JamesMontemagno Thank you! Worked like a charm!

@thebat8869 Год назад

This doesn't work for hwinfo64 or hw monitor :/

@justingolden21 9 месяцев назад

Love FancyZones but sadly it'll sometimes crash and not load at all or only load default zones. Wish PowerToys weren't so buggy.

@Litruv 7 месяцев назад

I get around it by setting the shortcut to the fancy zone, then it's ctrl+win+alt+ little annoying still, but works a bit easier then resetting the zone.

@DivineMisterAdVentures Год назад

Really ticks me off to have an app tie up a bunch of key combinations that I don't use - nothing more stupid than NOT to implement a simple foldout context menu or popup menu. Geez - that's proof they are not human factored.