With Windows 7, you can easily move windows on one half of the screen by dragging them to the left or right edge of the screen. This is called “Snap” and is very handy. Watch Microsoft’s video on Snap if you don’t know it yet.

But on a multi-screen setup with two screens side-by-side, you can only place a window at the right half of the right screen or the left half of the left screen with Snap. You cannot place a window at the left half of the left screen because there is no “magic edge” there. Of course you can move and resize it manually. But there is a faster way:

[Windows-Key] + [Left arrow]

This places the window at these positions:

1. Left half of left screen
2. Right half of left screen
3. Left Screen
4. Left half of left screen
5. Right half of right screen
6. Right screen

Just press [Windows]+[Left] again to move it to the next position listed above. You can press [Windows] + [Right arrow] to move it the other way round (starting to the right half of right screen).

I don’t know if any other Windows version supports this as well, I guess at least Windows 8 supports it as well (in desktop mode).

Happy window-moving! 🙂