This is called tiling, and it can be done either vertically or horizontally. For this demonstration, vertical tiling was used. Depending on whether you choose to Tile Horizontally or Vertically, your windows will be equally spaced either across or down the screen. However, the more windows you tile, the less you’ll be able to see of each. Tiling also works with folders, which makes it a handy tool if you want to drag and drop files from one folder to another.
In the image below, Internet Explorer and a Word Document are shown in the taskbar. To tile them, hold the Ctrl key and left click on one of the buttons. Without releasing the Ctrl key, left click on the other button.
Here, both buttons have been selected. After releasing the Ctrl key, right click on the taskbar. From the menu, select Tile Vertically.
This is the result.
If you’re working on several documents in the same program (Word, Excel, etc.), and your taskbar is full, with similar files stacked according to program, find the button on the taskbar for files in the program you want to tile and right click. Again, in the image below, Tile Vertically was selected to tile three Microsoft Word documents.
However, as seen in the image below, when more than three windows are selected, tiling is somewhat different, incorporating both vertical and horizontal tiling.
I hope this helps our XP friends. Thanks for the feedback.
~Kevin
Tags: tiling, windows xp
Nice info!
Thanks for sharing!!!
I loved this tip. Still learning after all these years. Thanks for not forgetting the XP tips. Love XP – hate Windows 7! Use both.
it didn’t work, when I click on the empty space the box that comes up, the tile part is dimmed out, can’t do it,,so how can i change this???
I tried this in XP. Somehow I got 9 tiles on the screen, not just 2. But now, every time I click on a link, the window that opens is tiny – it’s only one-ninth of the screen. How can I make it open larger, instead of having to enlarge the window each and every time?
This didn’t work for me, but I found that if I right clicked on the on the buttons I would get the tile options there!
Thank you. Allways wanted to know.