With Windows 11, there was this new feature called Snap Layout, and you may have already heard about
it.
So what this allows you to do is just place certain applications on your screen in a sort of a more
controlled manner.
So for instance, with, let's say, Windows 10, maybe you wanted to have one application take up half
the screen on the left and another application to take up the other half of the screen.
Now you were able to do that in Windows 10 and also in Windows seven.
But it was a little bit difficult to use.
But now we have this inbuilt feature like I just mentioned the snap layout feature.
So on my PC right now I have several applications that are open and I want to view all of them at the
same time.
So I think I'm going to take advantage of the snap layout feature now to use this feature.
All you have to do is just to go to one of your applications.
So let's just go for.
This year where I have this video ready to play, and I want to have this at the top left, so all I
have to do is just come to this option here and here we have four options.
So first of all, I'm going to go for this option here and have this video play on the left.
OK, so now that I've clicked on that, Windows has detected that there are these other applications
which are these applications here that are also open.
So it's asking, OK?
What other one do you want on the right?
So I think what I'll go for is the Chrome browser, so I'll click on that.
And I can have this video play on the left and I can surf the web if that's what they still say these
days.
However, if I wanted to have four of these applications open in front of me at the same time, what
I could do is I can just come to this option once again, and I'm going to put this at the top left.
Now you might think to yourself, OK, Warwick, will you just click on the top left wise and not here?
Well, to be honest with you, this is the Windows 11 Insider program version of Windows 11.
So maybe this is just a small bug that Windows 11 has at the moment.
But needless to say, once I click on one of these options, it will show at the top left.
So what I'm going to do is I'm going to click on my file explorer here, and I'm going to put this up
here at the top right and then I'm going to put my photos here at the bottom left.
And as you can see, the videos actually appeared now, and I'm going to put Wikipedia within Google
Chrome here at the bottom right.
So you can see how easy it is to actually use this.
Now, as you can see with the Chrome browser, it is just a little bit too.
While I would say compact and even though I'm doing this course and it quite a light screen, I'm actually
doing this on a 65 inch screen TV and I can see this quite easily.
If you want a laptop or maybe just a normal sized monitor, then you might struggle to see some of the
finer details, let's say, within your internet browser and these other applications.
But with some of the applications, if you just hover your mouse over that application, hold down the
control key and scroll forward with your mouse.
You can zoom in a little bit like this.
I think I've already shown you this in one of the first tutorials.
Now it doesn't work and all of the applications, so for instance, it won't work with the video and
it won't work with or actually, maybe it will.
This does trial.
Try this out.
OK, it does work with the photos, and I do know it works with the File Explorer.
So as you can see, I can change the size by holding the control button and scrolling back and forward
with the wheel on my mouse.
If you're not using a mouse, you can just hold down the control button and put two fingers on the mouse
pad on your laptop and push upwards and down.
And you should get the same effect.
And then finally, if you remember the shortcut, you can hold down the Windows key and press the plus
icon on your keyboard.
And this effects will happen where you zoom in like this.
You can just move your cursor around.
So like I said, you should remember this from one of the first tutorials in this course, and you can
just adjust the view here within this panel.
So anyway, that is the snap layout feature pretty handy stuff, I think it really was a good idea in
the past with Windows 10 and Windows seven.
This is the kind of thing I wanted, and this is probably the reason why they've actually implemented
it this time because it is really handy to have.