PowerToys may soon get a useful window management utility for Windows 11 and 10

A future PowerToys update could introduce a new tool that makes it easier to arrange windows by dragging them from anywhere.

Windows 11 is quite good at window management, with Snap Assist, Snap Layouts, various gestures, and shortcuts making it much easier to keep your screen well-organized. However, things are a bit more complicated for those who prefer doing things in the old-school way. When resizing or moving a window with a mouse, you must click in very specific areas, which is not very convenient, as those areas are small and sometimes hard to aim (especially on higher-res displays). PowerToys, a set of useful utilities for Windows 10 and 11, could soon fix that with a new tool.

A proposed WinPos module on PowerToys’ GitHub repository promises to make window management with a mouse much easier. Instead of aiming for the title bar (which, in many apps, hosts extra elements, such as tabs, buttons, search, and more), users could hold the Alt key and then move or resize the window by clicking anywhere on it with the right or left mouse button.

The idea stems from AltDrag, an old Windows utility that does just the same thing. Interestingly, improved window dragging/resizing is present in other operating systems, such as Linux, and AltDrag brings that behavior to Windows. Unfortunately, AltDrag now looks abandoned, with its latest update now being over a decade old. A reincarnation in PowerToys could bring this app back and introduce more people to the idea.

For now, there is no information on when WinPos will be available publicly in PowerToys. If you want to learn more about it and track the pull request’s progress, head to PowerToys’ official GitHub repository. If released, WinPos will join existing window management tools in PowerToys, which include Always on Top (this should be a native thing in Windows 11), Fancy Zones, Crop and Lock, and Workspaces.

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Posted Thursday 9 April 2026 at 5:45 am AEST (my time).

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