How to use FancyZones in Microsoft PowerToys
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- Опубліковано 4 лип 2024
- In this video, I will show you how you can use FancyZones, one of my favorite PowerToys from Microsoft.
PowerToys can be downloaded from the Microsoft PowerToys page on GitHub: github.com/microsoft/PowerToy...
⏳Timestamps
0:00 Intro
0:20 Use Case
1:50 Install PowerToys
2:19 How to use FancyZones editor
5:13 Create new layout
8:45 Customize settings
10:15 Wrap up
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I love this feature (I also have an ultrawide monitor). But after using almost all the other PowerToys feature, this is the FIRST time I've seen someone demonstrate how to actually use them. Thanks!
Thank you Andy! I’ve been arranging my windows into these types of layouts manually for far far too long. This is a huge time saver!
Thanks Michael. Glad it was helpful!
@@AndyPark365 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?
Installed Powertoys and had a few problems setting up the fancyzones feature. This video brought some clarity to that. Thanks!
I'm trying this one from long time but don't know how to apply. You are the only one who explained this. Everyone straights into how to use but they forget how to apply first. Thank you, you made my life easier.
Glad you found the video helpful. Thanks for watching Rajendra!
FancyZones works so well with an ultrawide. The whole thing feels very polished. Love the ability to have a couple hotkeys to switch between workflows. A lot of people seem to love to complain about Microsoft when the newest Windows comes out. But I love Windows 11. I've had next to no problems and the UI is awesome. Nice looking native dark mode. Tabs in file explorer. I don't have to use a 3rd party command line tool because Terminal has gotten so much better over the years. Another neat feature I noticed recently is that it shows an icon for bluetooth devices in the bottom right to quickly mark if it's a controller, a speaker or headphones for example. There's so many nice little QoL features that Microsoft has added with 11 that it is finally feeling like a MacOS competitor form a design standpoint. I love just about everything about it and PowerToys boosts that even more.
Thanks for explaining this. I was having a tough time trying to figure out just how to do a split screen and every other channel did not specify that you needed to highlight and drag them together. Was driving me nuts! Thanks again my friend.
Glad the video helped! Thanks for watching.
THANK YOU!!!! you actually guide your viewers through soft, unlike so videos that rush the whole tNice tutorialng or talk too fast.
Wow, great tutorial man, lots of details and effort you put into this! Really appreciate it!
Thanks Steve. I appreciate the comment!
Really crisp clear presentation, thank you. You got me interested in a new possibility.
That's great to hear. Thanks for watching!
Such detailed explanation. Thanks so much Andy!
This video is so helpful, and will help me save a lot of time. Thank you very much for making it!🙂👍
Awesome video. At seven minutes into the video you explain how to share a FancyZones zone/window in MS Teams. Many people like me did not know that was possible. Please create a video on your channel with that tiltle heading and you will help many other people. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the feedback. Yes, will put in on the list for future videos. Thanks for the idea!
Great coverage and informative. Appreciate your content.
Game changer for me, working across different 8 data bases/programmes , and operating a very busy team chat.
Very Helpful and conveyed
very well, Thank you!
I had been searching this video for a while, ty :)
Andy: Further to our exchange(s) I have discovered the problem: a) The transparency was set invisibly high b) I believe closing The Editor needs to be stated, once the configuration selection has been made (in fact, adding a Cose button would help. An earlier iteration had 'Apply', which encouraged the same action. Thanks again for your help.
I am so glad this program allows me to utilize the keyboard shortcut to move the windows across my screen and snap it in a specific region of the screen or I can tweak it to my liking. Awesome program! Thank you for the video.
Thanks for the video, this is exactly what I needed to setup my poker tables!
Your lesson helped a lot, after that i wrote my first lody. Thank you very much.
May God bless you. This is a big help to me today. - Random Accountant
Thank you Andy for Sharing and showing.
Great video, thanks Andy!
Great info, helped alot getting me started
This is the best free software Ive seen. Respect.
Very well done, nice explanation and presentation layout! Congrats
Thanks for the kind feedback Ronaldo!
Could not find anybody covering how to get rid of the spacing between zones. Was driving me crazy. Thank you!
Glad the video was helpful. Thanks for watching Joshua!
ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANTLY DONE!!!!! Thank for such great content. “SUBSCRIBED”
Thanks bro that was really helpful
Very clear and concise video, thank you!
Thanks for watching Alan!
Great video Andy, very helpful!
Glad it was helpful Josh. Thanks for watching!
Very well explained, well done
Excellent tutorial, thanks man
Appreciate the video, Andy.
Thanks Bobby!
Thank you very much. Very well explained and presented
Thank you for watching!
Thank you very much, love this new skill
OMG THANKS SO SO MUCH THIS HELPED!!!
Nice one brother 🥂
Very nicely done for me. Thank you.
Thank you for watching Robert.
Great video!
you literally just handed me the answer to all my prayers!!!
Of the dozen or so videos on Fancy Zones I have seen, this was the most satisfying relative to what was presented. I understand there is additional functionality that binds a specific app to a specific zone. I wonder how Fancy Zones would behave if you have 2 or more virtual desktops that you covered in another video.
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Hi Ricardo. First of all, thanks for watching. Second, great question about virtual desktops. I just tested it myself, and it turns out that you CAN have different fancy zones applied to each virtual desktop.
Please consider a follow up demonstrating that functionality. I am pretty certain you would be the first person on UA-cam to do so. It would be useful to dive deeper into how you can make "permanent" the apps that are dropped into the zones, whether they are open or not. @@AndyPark365
Cool thx, will try it tonight at home.
Thank you for explanation =)
thank you from
with all my heart I just needed it well🤝🤝🖤
Amazing, Thank you!!!!!
Great video man!
Thanks Roby!
Very helpful video. Thanks. Perhaps it's been mentioned in previoius comments, but fiddling around while watching, I noticed that for a canvas layout, the cursor keys will move the entire canvas. Holding shift plus a cursor key will change the size by 10 pixels, and holding ctrl+shift plus a cursor key will change the size by 2 pixels.
Thanks Ken for that tip!
Thank you I didn't know you had to hold shift!
this is perfect thanks, when you drag you window to top it gives you zone layout choice but i dont see customized zones on the choices is that possible ?
thx 4 the video.
Great videos and presentation style! Do you have a technique to only share a specific zone through Teams? I screenshare all day long and need to share multiple apps so I always use the Screen option. However, I recently upgraded to an ultrawide monitor and it seems as though there's no terribly elegant way to have a zone for all the apps I'm sharing and a non-shared zone for OneNote/Outlook on the same monitor.
Looking for this solution as well.
Worked, thx
Thank you good to know; Have a question: does this work if you have two separate monitors with mouse flow?
Thanks a lot !
THANK YOU!
Nice one
Thank you!
Thank you very much
Awesome program
good hack, good job man
Great video Andy, I'm using PowerToys as well, great tool but is it possible to open all the windows layout on Windows bootup?
Hmmm. Not that I'm aware of. If I come across an answer, I'll let you know. Thanks for watching.
Can you so a video on hos tris works in virtuella desktops, and if you can have different layouts in the virtual desktops ?
thank you so much....
Can you default apps to specific zones, on my previous computer I have a software I downloaded so it can be told "outlook to the left column" Chrome to the right column and other apps in the center column ( I use the 3 column default on a 43" monitor, just hoping that's doable but if not, at least turning off "hold shift key" allows me to throw the apps around to the correct location
thanks bro
Does it also snap games that run in -window mode? Like split screen gaming while browsing.
Can i do 8 multiview in samsung odessy neo g9 with this fancyzones
Can this soft to rescale/resize window of application into bounds of segment?
When you share the web browser in Teams, you're selecting an app not a window. If you want to share something else like Excel, can to drop that in the same zone and will it be shared instead?
Amazing 👌 🇪🇨
Thanks Rubén!
do you notice that fancy zone have one limitation , we can not set the resolution. I mean i have split the 4x4 then font are big like 720 on each area. every time i need to zoom out documents. its not easy
Is there any point in using this with windows 11 since the resize feature is built into the window max/min button?
Any recommendations how PPT in slideshow can be shared in zoom or webex using fancy zones, I am unable to figure that out yet as the moment i enter slide show while being within one fancy zone the whole 49 inch monitor gets shown.
thank u
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?
super! cheatwas easily installed
When I connected my laptop to a 34-inch ultrawide curved monitor with a resolution of 3440 x 1440p and a refresh rate of 180Hz as an extended monitor, everything appeared stretched and blurry with larger fonts.
I aim to multitask efficiently without encountering stretching and blurriness, even when I resize windows for different applications.
Can Fancy Zones address the stretched and blurry appearance on the extended 34-inch monitor? My laptop running Windows 11 doesn't display the 3440 x 1440 resolution.
I'm seeking a solution to this blurriness issue and hope for your assistance. Many thanks.
5:07 I wanted to know what the "Highlight distance" settings does.
I have a LG C1 48, I can’t shrink the canvas to 1920x1080. Is there a toggle or something?
Is there a way to let you have a fullscreen look for that specific zone?
Unfortunately not.
Can I have a 3D render in a screen and a game in another screen at the same time while I'm watching UA-cam videos in another?
After all this hardwork...one reboot and its all gone....or it remembers each unique folder and where it should open when a folder icon is double clicked ?
Obrigado
You're welcome Brunão. Thanks for watching!
I just want everywindow to stay a smaller size its so complex uh hope this help
Is there a way in FancyZones to segment a certain zone so that when going full screen in the specific application (chrome in this case) it doesn't suddenly take over the entire monitor, but rather only expands to full size within the designated zone?
Hi Ryan - as far as I know, there isn't a way to do this with fancy zones. I'm not sure if there are any other applications that can do this.
@@AndyPark365 Thanks for the reply!
RetroSun thanks to other comnts i gotchu; click on gms when you’re in the channel rack to open up the gms nu and in the light blue
Microsoft PowerToys? I have no idea what it is, but if Andy Park says I need it, I'm gonna go get it.
LOL Karen. Thanks for your support!!!
Please fix this.. I'm trying to shrink my browser window but it has a limit, if I shrink the layout to its maximum length the window browser doesn't follow that and cuts the browser.
I have a doubt regarding this program. First, I need to explain the reasons for why I want to use it. I basically want to create a secondary monitor without having one. Why? Because I need a second screen on the same monitor to use Chromecast as a second screen and use it with a video projector for video mapping. If someone know how to use Chromcast has a secondary monitor pls tell me.
Never could get it to work. Norhing happens when I push left mouse button. Grid does not show up.
RetroSun oh my god too let know when you figure it out
How to achieve such scenario? By clicking fullscreen button on YT video to stay within FancyZone boundries? Not at real fullscreen.
I worry about that too, I always having trouble finisNice tutorialng anytNice tutorialng I try and create, but I figure if I do a little more each day, it'll get there one
How to make video full window in browser. not entire screen . I press UA-cam or Twitch by full screen , then the entire screen has video , so that there has dead zone. Can't muti task
Master Chiu - Unfortunately, we can't make a window full screen within a set zone. I've been trying to figure that myself. Will let you know if I find a solution. Thanks.
@@AndyPark365 have you figured it out?
god bless u xdd
It's not working for any program I care about. ie. Teamspeak and Discord. :(
soft inside the soft roll when I plot in a single channel? I don't know if tNice tutorials makes sense, but basically what I want is; when I plot in a
I would love to have this on my work computer, but noooo...The admins think it is not safe....Microsoft, make this thing portable, please! It would make my life so much easier!
I do what you do, it does not work? I dubble click like you do, i see no lines/zones, just nothing.