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.
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. tiling windows 11
He assigned hotkeys: Win+Ctrl+1 through Win+Ctrl+4 . He felt like a wizard. The video showed a third-party tool called "FancyZones"