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Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition
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I Can’t Line Up Two Windows
on the Screen
With its arsenal of dragging-and-dropping tools,
Windows simplifies grabbing information from
onewindow and copying it to another. You can drag
an address from an address book and drop it atop a
letter in your word processor, for example.
However, the hardest part of dragging and dropping
comes when you’re lining up two windows on the
screen, side by side, for dragging.
Windows 8 offers an easy way to align windows for
easy dragging and dropping:
1. Drag one window against a left or right edge.
When your mouse pointer touches the screen’s
edge, the window reshapes itself to fill half
the screen.
2. Drag the other window against the opposite edge.
When your mouse pointer reaches the opposite
edge, the two windows are aligned side by side.
You can also minimize all the windows except for the
two you want to align side by side. Then right-click a
blank spot on the taskbar, and then choose Show
Windows Side By Side. The two windows line up on
the screen perfectly.
It Won’t Let Me Do Something
Unless I’m an Administrator!
Windows 8 gets really picky about who gets to do
what on your computer. The computer’s owner gets
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