Habitually Good

Here’s a neat little trick I discovered a while ago while working on my new Windows 7 installation. All of you must know that you can maximize your window by double-clicking the title bar of the Window that you want to maximize.

Here’s something new, you can maximize your window in a way so that it only maximizes the height of it. I am calling this Vertical Maximize, and based on my tests, you can’t do this horizontally. Here’s how to do this:

Step 1: Move your mouse to any of the horizontal edges of your window (top or bottom), so that you see the vertical resize arrow (shown below).

Step 2: Now, simply double-click and presto, your window expands to maximize the vertical dimension, while the horizontal dimension remains the same. I can see this coming in very handy when you have multiple windows open side by side and you want to increase the vertical viewable area for a given window without changing its width.

To restore the window, simply double-click the title bar.

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