![]() Once we’ve created the layout and it appears in our FancyZones Editor, we can edit more options by clicking edit in the top right corner of its thumbnail. My screen layout on my office workstation, for instance, is always 1) Zoom in upper left corner, 2) GoogleDoc in Chrome in the bottom left, and 3) pdfs open in Chrome on the right half of my screen, so I created a layout that looks like this: ![]() Creating a new layout gives us the ability to construct the zones on our screens. To select or edit the zones’ layout, we can either open the PowerToys settings, or we can launch it with the FancyZones default key combination, Win+Shift+` (grave accent key, lowercase tilde). FancyZones also gives you more control over features than Snap and gives you the ability to create a custom workflow if you regularly use the same layout of windows. While its functionality is similar to using Win+Arrow Keys for Windows Snap, FancyZones allows you to define areas of various sizes (in advance) for where windows should be on the screen. One of the most powerful productivity tools in PowerToys is FancyZones, which provides elements of a tiling window manager when used with grids. While its functionality is similar to using Win+Arrow Keys for Windows Snap, FancyZones allows you to define areas of various sizes (in advance) for where windows should be on the screen. One of the most powerful productivity tools in PowerToys is FancyZones, which provides elements of a tiling window manager when used with grids. This is the first post in a two part series on PowerToys and will focus exclusively on FancyZones. The PowerToys are available on Windows 10, but have recently received an update to make their UI fit better into Windows 11 as well. They don’t come as a part of the operating system or normal feature updates, but can be installed by downloading them or finding them in the Microsoft Store. ![]() PowerToys is a suite of extensions for Windows that provides a few very powerful features to users who install it.
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