All three screens went black. Then, one by one, his applications re-opened. But they didn't open normally. Chrome appeared, tiled into a 1x8 horizontal ribbon—a single strip of tabs, eight pixels tall. Spotify tiled itself into a perfect vertical column, showing only the play button. Visual Studio Code opened, but each individual pane inside it—the file explorer, the editor, the terminal—had become its own top-level window, each frantically trying to find a home in the layout.
He assigned hotkeys: Win+Ctrl+1 through Win+Ctrl+4 . He felt like a wizard. tiling windows 11
That night, he tried to delete FancyZones. He went into PowerToys settings, un-toggled "Enable Zones," and clicked Uninstall. The dialog box froze. Then, a new window appeared. It wasn't a Windows dialog. It was plain white, with black monospaced text: All three screens went black
He cried a little.
Adrian, a software developer with three screens and zero attention span, clicked. Chrome appeared, tiled into a 1x8 horizontal ribbon—a
He went to sleep. The PC did not.