He assigned hotkeys: Win+Ctrl+1 through Win+Ctrl+4 . He felt like a wizard.
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:
And that is why, to this day, Adrian uses a single, maximized window. One window. One zone. One app at a time. He’s since bought a second monitor just to hold his wallpaper. He doesn't move anything onto it. He just likes the way the light reflects off the empty, untiled, beautifully chaotic void. tiling windows 11
"No problem," he muttered. "Just a bug."
He cried a little.
He closed the laptop. He called in sick.
At 3:14 AM, Adrian woke to a soft, rhythmic thump-thump-thump . He stumbled into his office. The monitors were on. On each screen, a lone File Explorer window was tiling and un-tiling itself repeatedly, slamming against the edges of invisible zones. Thump. Snap. Thump. Snap. It was having a seizure. He force-rebooted. He assigned hotkeys: Win+Ctrl+1 through Win+Ctrl+4
Adrian, a software developer with three screens and zero attention span, clicked.