# Mac OSX: ctrl-shift-up arrow makes windows move around but very slowly **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 22, 2011, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mac-osx-ctrl-shift-up-arrow-makes-windows-move-around-but-very-slowly/603714 "2011-11-22T03:42:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![fighting\_ignorant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ac8455/32.png) [@fighting\_ignorant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fighting_ignorant)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mac-osx-ctrl-shift-up-arrow-makes-windows-move-around-but-very-slowly/603714/1 "2011-11-22T03:42:47Z")
What is this, and where can I turn it off? That’s also supposed to be the shortcut key to move paragraphs around in Mac Word but it seems the OS hotkey assignment is taking it over… Thanks ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mac-osx-ctrl-shift-up-arrow-makes-windows-move-around-but-very-slowly/603714/2 "2011-11-22T03:50:14Z")
Look in System Preferences -\> Keyboard -\> Keyboard Shortcuts ---
**Author:** ![fighting\_ignorant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ac8455/32.png) [@fighting\_ignorant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fighting_ignorant)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mac-osx-ctrl-shift-up-arrow-makes-windows-move-around-but-very-slowly/603714/3 "2011-11-22T03:55:07Z")
Yeah that’s the weird thing. It lists Ctrl-Up Arrow as the key for Mission Control, but nothing is listed for Ctrl-Shift-Up Arrow. It basically is doing the same thing as Mission Control but _really_ slowly. Like, it takes a full 4 seconds to animate all the windows out. Normal Mission Control is well under a second, nice and quick. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mac-osx-ctrl-shift-up-arrow-makes-windows-move-around-but-very-slowly/603714/4 "2011-11-22T03:58:00Z")
What happens if you remap Mission Control to something else? I’m working on my Snow Leopard system, otherwise I’d check and see if my Lion machine does the same thing as yours. ---
**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mac-osx-ctrl-shift-up-arrow-makes-windows-move-around-but-very-slowly/603714/5 "2011-11-22T03:59:49Z")
If you hold down Shift while doing any of the screen-management-type actions, it happens in slo-mo. I’m not sure why (maybe just so you can ogle the animation). Shift+expose and Shift+spaces work the same way (I’m still on Snow Leopard, so YMMV). ---
**Author:** ![fighting\_ignorant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ac8455/32.png) [@fighting\_ignorant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fighting_ignorant)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mac-osx-ctrl-shift-up-arrow-makes-windows-move-around-but-very-slowly/603714/6 "2011-11-22T04:04:17Z")
Huh. Yeah Garfield you’re right. Beowulff - followed your suggestion, I unmapped Mission Control and the “shift” version does nothing. So it seems Garfield is right and Shift just, generally, causes the window movement stuff to go in a real awkward slow-mo. Thanks dope! ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mac-osx-ctrl-shift-up-arrow-makes-windows-move-around-but-very-slowly/603714/7 "2011-11-22T09:45:34Z")
> [@fighting\_ignorant](#): > > Huh. Yeah Garfield you’re right. Beowulff - followed your suggestion, I unmapped Mission Control and the “shift” version does nothing. So it seems Garfield is right and Shift just, generally, causes the window movement stuff to go in a real awkward slow-mo. > > Thanks dope! He is right. IIRC it was done for demo purposes back when resizing/deforming windows was impressive and has kind of stayed. A legacy bit of fun.