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Crop and Lock, available for both Windows 11 and Windows 10 v2004 (19041) or newer, has two modes \u2014 a non-interactive Thumbnail crop that\u2019s essentially a live feed of the area you select that updates with the page, and a \u201cReparent\u201d mode that Microsoft writes is more interactive, but could have compatibility issues with some apps.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
You\u2019ll need to make sure the window you want to crop is selected before you enter the shortcut \u2014 you can\u2019t just grab any old app window on your screen.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Our own Sean Hollister gave the feature a spin, making a thumbnail crop of his Steam downloads and another crop of his office lights from Home Assistant, so he could keep a small window of only those controls. He found that creating a micro web browser with the Reparent mode was nice, but only allowed for vertical scrolling.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Sean noted that when you close out of the cropped app window, the former, full window reappears.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Microsoft lists a few known issues:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Cropping maximized or full-screen windows in \u201cReparent\u201d mode might not work. It\u2019s recommended to resize the window to fill the screen corners instead.<\/p>\n Some UWP apps won\u2019t react well to being cropped in \u201cReparent\u201d mode. The Windows Calculator is a notable example of this.<\/p>\n Applications that use sub-windows or tabs can also react poorly to being cropped in \u201cReparent\u201d mode. Notepad and OneNote are notable examples of applications that react poorly.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n Crop and Lock was added to PowerToys version 0.73.0, which GitHub shows was released two days ago<\/a> for both X64 and Arm64 architectures.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n