How to make a window always stay on top of all other windows.
Whenever you open a program or app, it opens in what’s called a window. As you open more programs, these windows are stacked on top of each other.
Sometimes it’d be good if you could keep one of the windows always visible, on top of all the others, regardless of which one you were using.
As ever, there’s an app for that. Or rather there are many apps that’ll make a window stay on top, but the best one is probably Microsoft PowerToys. It’s free and really easy to use.
Always On Top – Microsoft PowerToys.
PowerToys is a free package of powerful utilities developed by Microsoft to help enhance the standard capabilities of Windows. Power Toys is available for both Windows 10 & Windows 11.
You can get PowerToys from the Microsoft Store. Open the Store app on your PC, then search for PowerToys, then click the Install button.
Launch PowerToys.
Launch PowerToys from the Windows Start menu.
PowerToys has many options (or modules) that you can enable or disable by clicking on the relevant switch. By default all the modules are set to enabled.
Each module displays the keyboard shortcut that will activate it.
How To Make A Window Stay On Top.
To make a window stay on top of all the others, select it by clicking inside the window, then press the Windows key, the CTRL key and the letter T on your keyboard at the same time.
You’ll see a blue highlight or border appear around the selected window. That window will now stay on top of any others that you open.
You can move and resize the window to any part of your screen. It’ll behave perfectly normally with the exception that no other windows will be able to open over it. Brilliant.
To stop keeping it on top, just select it again and then the same keyboard combination, Windows key + CTRL + T.
Summary.
The Always On Top module in the PowerToys suite works great in both Windows 10 & Windows 11.
It does exactly what it says on the tin. When you’ve got several applications open at the same time, being able to quickly “pin” one of them above all the others is a real bonus.
