Expanding windows vertically in Windows 10

Hello,

I've been able to use a windows feature since Windows 7. If you place your mouse pointer at either vertical edge of a window and double click you are able to expand that window vertically to the edges of the screen.

Where can I toggle this setting in the operating system? I am able to do this on my desktop but for whatever reason, I cannot do it on my laptop. Both systems are running windows 10. One was a clean install while the laptop was an upgrade so I'm not sure if thats the possible cause or not.

Any help you can offer would be much appreciated. Thank you.

 

I think Tecagaste meant the horizontal edges, double click at top to maximize the window, double click at bottom and the height snaps to fit the screen.

 

I meant verticle edges and thank you that was the setting that I had somehow not seen. Works now.

Nice to see this site is still around. I believe it was a branch off of Hardware Pacers but I could be mistaken it was so long ago. Cheers.

 

I know for a fact it worked in windows 7. I have no idea where the setting would be though. In windows 10, as explained in a post above, the setting is at Settings>Sytem>Multitasking.

The only thing I do to expand the window vertically is place my mouse pointer at the vertical edge of the window until the icon for the pointer changes and double click.

 

He means the top or bottom of the window. It works in Windows 8.1 too.

 

Haha my apologies. I guess it could also be the horizontal edge depending on how you look at it. But yes for clarification the top and bottom of the window.