How to avoid texture distortion around windows?

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maybe this has been answered a thousand times, but a search with “distorted texture” didn’t bring the answer so here’s the problem:
The base model is a simple box with a window, subsurfed. The texture around the window is distorted. Is there an easy way to fix this problem?
Here is a little picture of the problem:
left side: UV-Editor, unwrapped mesh fits perfect
right side: 3D-view, texture around the window is distorted

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To avoid distortion try adding additional edge loops around the areas showing stretching. Also when you uv unwrap select the ‘Use Subsurf Data’ tickbox. This may help. http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.62/UV_Tools#Subsurf-aware_Unwrapping

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Thank you, Richard. The additional loops helped a lot. I already tried the new “use subsurf data” feature but it didn’t work convincingly.
By the way - is there a way to align complete islands in the UV-Editor? When i use “Align Y” Blender aligns all vertices to one Y-value.