Snap windows into zones with Shift-drag

Drag-to-snap lets you place any window in a zone with the mouse, the same way PowerToys FancyZones does.

How to snap a window

1. Make sure confinement is running (press Start). Drag-to-snap is off while stopped.
2. Start dragging a window by its title bar.
3. Hold Shift. The zone under your pointer lights up with a translucent highlight in your app color, on whichever monitor the pointer is on.
4. Move to the zone you want and release the mouse button while still holding Shift.

The window is placed flush into that zone.

Cancel a snap

Release Shift before the mouse button. The highlight disappears immediately and the window is dropped wherever you let go, like a normal drag.

Details

• The drag has to move more than about 12 pixels before the highlight appears, so a click on the title bar never snaps.
• Snapping works across monitors: drag onto another enabled monitor and its zones light up.
• The snapped zone follows that screen’s Cover taskbar setting: above the taskbar by default, or under it if Cover taskbar is on.
• Always-on-top windows, which automatic confinement skips, can be snapped this way.
• Elevated (administrator) windows can’t be moved unless VirtualZones also runs as administrator.
• Drag-to-snap uses a low-level mouse hook that only exists while confinement is running. It records nothing. See Privacy & network.