Poll of the Day > is there a program that splits a computer monitor into two separate windows ?

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so i can have for example youtube fullscreened on the left and another program on the right, so 1 monitor acts like two in a sense, right now even if i drag a window to the left and it only takes up half the screen when i try to fullscreen youtube it does the whole monitor not just the half the window is open on.

Sounds like you just need a second monitor.

reason posted...

Sounds like you just need a second monitor.

i do have multiple monitors but im mowing soon so packed them up and using my TV as one for now.

I believe if you drag the window to one side of the screen it will change the size of the window to 1/2 of the screen.

Would a virtual desktop suffice?

https://helpdeskgeek.com/windows-10/how-to-set-up-virtual-desktops-in-windows-10/

captpackrat posted...

I believe if you drag the window to one side of the screen it will change the size of the window to 1/2 of the screen.

Yeah ive tried that, but unfortunately if i try to full screen a youtube or netflix video for example it covers the whole screen then which i dont want.

Youtube's "Theatre View" option will size up the player to be more or less as large as the window size will allow. It won't letterbox it like real fullscreen would, but size-wise it's pretty much the same. If you want the letterboxing, you can roughly approximate it by switching to dark mode, or really go in on it by opening two command prompt windows and positioning/sizing them to give you a black overlay.

Use the Picture in Picture mode and just resize the pop-out?

I use PowerToys - FancyZones.

313800 posted...

so i can have for example youtube fullscreened on the left and another program on the right, so 1 monitor acts like two in a sense, right now even if i drag a window to the left and it only takes up half the screen when i try to fullscreen youtube it does the whole monitor not just the half the window is open on.

although by reading this, it's somewhat unclear what you want. If you have a youtube window taking up half the screen, you can't like...fullsize stretch it across that half of the screen. the largest amount of real estate it could take up without changing the aspect ratio of the video would be through theatre mode.