How to Turn on/off Snap Layouts on Windows 11 – Guide

Windows 11 makes the Windows Snap feature more explicit and robust. The Windows 11 Snap Layout allows you to easily snap a window to a specific area by hovering over the Maximize button and clicking where you want the window to go. However, if you are an advanced user, this feature can be more of an annoyance than a help. So today we are going to show you how to disable Windows Snap Layout in the Maximize button. ..

Windows 11 snap layout button can be disabled in different ways. If you want to capture your Windows in a particular way, such as dragging it to the edge of the screen, you can still do that. However, if you want to disable the functionality completely, you can check the section at the bottom of this tutorial. ..

How to Enable/Disable Snap Layouts in Windows 11

Turn snap layouts on or off Feature on Windows 11 via the Settings app

To open the Settings app in Windows 11, press the Windows key + I key. ..

From the System menu, use the three dots in the top-left corner to open the System Preferences window. On the General tab, make sure that “Show hidden files and folders” is checked. Now click on the Security tab and make sure that “Allow access to files and folders in Home directory” is checked. ..

Multitasking in Windows 10 is a way to manage multiple tasks at the same time. You can select one of the tasks to be the focus of your attention, and other tasks will be hidden or paused while you work on the selected task.

To enable or disable the Snap windows toggle, go to the Multitasking tab and check or uncheck the box next to “Snap windows.” ..

Turn snap layouts on or off Feature on Windows 11 via Registry Editor

New > Dword Value (32-bit)

Then go to the section on the right and rename the newly created DWORD to EnableSnapAssistFlyout.

To disable snap layouts in Windows 11:

  1. Double-click EnableSnapAssistFlyout in the menu on the right and set the Base to Hexadecimal and the value to 0. ..

Windows 11 PC needs to be restarted to allow the changes to take effect.

Final note

How to Turn on/off Snap Layouts on Windows 11 In order to turn on or off snap layouts on your Windows 11 computer, you will need to know how to do so. Here are the steps:

  1. Open the Start Menu and type “cmd” into the search bar. This will bring up a list of all of the commands that you can use to open windows.
  2. Type “snapLayout” into the command prompt and hit enter. This will open a new window that will show all of your snap layouts. You can change which layouts are displayed by clicking on one of them and then clicking again in order to remove it from your screen. If you want to keep all of your snaps in one place, you can click on “All Snaps” and then select which snaps you want to keep before hitting enter again.
  3. To turn off a snap layout, type “snapLayoutDisable” into the command prompt and hit enter. This will disable all of your snaps for that particular layout.