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February 5

Changing default file opening

Haven't phrased this very well, but say you open pdf/doc and it always opens in the topo left corner of the screen: is there any way of forcing the default to say, half screen with on the right, or anything else? Cheers, Serial (speculates here) 12:44, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! What Operating system are you running? Mgjertson (talk) 18:15, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Mgjertson, W11 64 bit. Serial (speculates here) 09:45, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, sorry, I don't have much experience with windows so I'm not sure how. I do know there's window snapping, but I'm not aware of any way to force a window to open in a specific location Mgjertson (talk) 13:55, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You can set a program to open in a spcific location if you open it from a shortcut by adding the window location to the shortcut's command string. Windows does not have a way to tell a specifici program to always open in a specific location. It is possible, but complicated, to make a shortcut to a program that opens in a specific location and then make the shortcut the program handler for the file type. 12.116.29.106 (talk) 14:14, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A Web search for "windows auto position window" turns up some promising suggestions, including PowerToys FancyZones and AutoHotkey for automatically resizing/positioning windows. Pointing out, we've stubbed our toe on a slight XY problem here: Windows doesn't have a built-in way to my knowledge, to automatically set the window position of a certain specific program when it launches. But you don't actually care about doing that precisely—you just want the PDF reader or whatever to be "half-screened", and there are numerous tools to easily do just that with a click or keypress, with a little configuring. --Slowking Man (talk) 03:53, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Slowking Man, and also the anon contributor (even if they did speak in tongues 😉 ) Serial (speculates here) 13:04, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]