It started, as most terrible ideas do, with a single, smug YouTube thumbnail. "STOP Wasting Your Monitor! Tile Like a PRO in Windows 11." The guy’s smile was too wide, his ultrawide monitor filled with a perfect 2x2 grid of terminals, browsers, and Spotify.
He leaned back. "This is it," he whispered. "The promised land." tiling windows 11
And that is why, to this day, Adrian uses a single, maximized window. One window. One zone. One app at a time. He’s since bought a second monitor just to hold his wallpaper. He doesn't move anything onto it. He just likes the way the light reflects off the empty, untiled, beautifully chaotic void. It started, as most terrible ideas do, with
He didn't sleep that night. He didn't use a computer for a week. When he finally turned his laptop back on, he held his breath. Windows 11 booted normally. The desktop was clean. No FancyZones. No layouts. He moved a window with his mouse, and it just… floated. Unguided. Free. He leaned back
The next day, things got personal .
"No problem," he muttered. "Just a bug."
The video showed a third-party tool called "FancyZones" – part of Microsoft’s PowerToys. Within minutes, Adrian had it installed. He drew a custom layout: one massive zone for code on the left, four smaller stacked zones on the right for Slack, docs, logs, and a YouTube window he’d never actually watch. He held Shift and dragged a window. Snap . It slotted into place like a LEGO brick. Beautiful.