1. A method for positioning a window on a user's display, the method comprising: providing, in a window-based computing environment, an image representing a display area of a user's computer screen, wherein the image comprises a plurality of regions, each region representing an area within the display area, wherein the regions are arranged in substantially the same way as the corresponding areas in the display area; enabling the user to select, as a group, multiple regions from the plurality of regions; and automatically moving, in accordance with the selection, a selected window in the window-based computing environment to the area represented by the multiple regions.