How do I disable desktop snap in Windows 8.1?

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beegeepee

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I have icons and other things at the top of my desktop (Windows 8.1). I routinely accidentally pull my whole desktop instead of moving the item I want to move. What is this feature called and how do I disable it?

I am not talking about snapping like Chrome to half the screen. I mean literally the entire desktop gets snapped if I pull from the top downward.
 
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Moving the cursor to the very top of the screen, clicking and dragging down is the way you close the desktop app from the [strike]Metro[/strike] Modern UI in Windows 8. There is no way to disable this.

For example, your screen looks something like this when you run into this, no?

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Yea, basically my entire desktop I can move to the right-half of monitor, left-half of the monitor, and it also can be placed all the way into the far left side-bar (not sure what Microsoft calls it basically the equivalent of the Charms bar to the right of the monitor).
 
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beegeepee

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I created an imgur of what I mean. As you can see, I can drag it to right, left, and far left. Once I snap it to one of those areas I can then drag the little black bar in the middle to make the desktop larger or smaller than 1/2 the screen.

http://imgur.com/a/XNWA9
 
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I already have Start8 installed do you know if I can use this other software with it?
 
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yeah - why does windows now force you to install 3rd party software to get rid of their gimmicky features in 8? Sorry, not much of an answer but i share your frustration. Windows, if you're reading, please make it possible to enable or disable features WITHIN the preloaded UI settings. (also like the transparent setting in bottom toolbar)
 
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Interesting posts, I discovered this by accident today, and it seems it's to allow you to have a 'split screen' view of the desktop programs and an apps.program. Thanks for the information.

desktop-splitScreen.jpg
 
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