Disable Snap Pop-Up While Moving Windows

Disable Snap Pop-Up While Moving Windows: This is a very annoying problem in Windows 10 where if you grab a window to move, a pop-up overlay will appear where you have clicked and make it easy to snap it to the sides of the monitor. Usually, this feature is useless and won’t let you position your Windows as you want because when you drag the window to the area where you want it to positions this pop-up overlay comes in between and prevent you from positioning the window to your desired location.

Disable Snap Pop-Up While Moving Windows

Although the Snap Assist feature was introduced in Windows 7 which lets users view two applications side-by-side without any overlapping. The problem comes when the Snap Assist automatically recommends the position to be filled by showing the overlap and hence creating the blockage.

The most common fix to fix the problem is turning off snap or aerosnap in System Settings, however, it doesn’t seem to turn off the snap completely and creates a new problem. So without wasting any time let’s see how to actually fix this issue with the below-listed methods.

Disable Snap Pop-Up While Moving Windows

Make sure to create a restore point just in case something goes wrong.

Method 1: Try disabling Snap Assist

1.Press Windows Key + I to open Settings then click System.

click on System

2.From the left-hand menu select Multitasking.

3.Turn off the toggle for “Arrange windows automatically by dragging them to the side or corners of the screen” to disable Snap Assist.

Turn off the toggle for Arrange windows automatically by dragging them to the side or corners of the screen

4.Reboot your PC to save changes. This will help you Disable Snap Pop-Up While Moving Windows within your Desktop.

Method 2: Disable Tips about Windows

1.Press Windows Key + I to open Settings then click System.

click on System

2.From the left-hand menu select Notifications & actions.

3.Turn off the toggle for “Get notifications from apps and other senders” to disable Windows suggestions.

Turn off the toggle for Get notifications from apps and other senders

4.Restart your PC to save changes.

Method 3: Disable Display splitter on a Dell PC

1.From the taskbar click on Dell PremierColor and go through the setup if you haven’t already.

2.Once you finish the above setup click on Advanced in the upper right corner.

3.In the Advanced window choose the Display Splitter tab from the left-hand menu.

Uncheck Display Splitter in Dell PremierColor

4.Now uncheck Display Splitter on the box and reboot your PC.

Method 4: Disable Desktop Partition on MSI computer

1.Click on MSI True Color icon from the system tray.

2.Go to Tools and uncheck Desktop Partition on.

Uncheck Desktop Partition on in MSI True Color

3.If you’re still stuck at the problem then uninstall MSI True color application.

4.Reboot your PC to save changes.

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That’s it you have successfully learned How to Disable Snap Pop-Up While Moving Windows if you still have any questions regarding this guide then feel free to ask them in the comment’s section.

2 thoughts on “Disable Snap Pop-Up While Moving Windows”

  1. I disabled “When I snap a window, show what I can snap next to it” option, now that annoying pop-up is gone. Didn’t know this was possible, thank you a lot!

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