Windows XP Annoyance (vanity)

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[RoughDobermann]

Does anyone with XP have this happen? You open a program (particularly IE 6.0 and Outlook Express) and the window is not maximized? Is there a way to correct it? Every other Windows OS I've used would automatically maximize upon program start.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I got to try some of this.

XP Pro has been working good for me .

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[Incorrigible]

From PC Magazine:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1195061,00.asp

 

Cure IE's Window-Size Amnesia By Neil J. Rubenking August 5, 2003
All of a sudden Internet Explorer started opening up in a tiny window, instead of the full screen. How do I reset it to open in a full window all the time? Glenn Keough Many readers report problems with IE's window sizing. Like its cousin Windows Explorer, IE has a notoriously bad memory for certain things, window sizes among them. Here is a technique that often fixes the problem, though it's not guaranteed. First, close all open IE windows, then launch IE again. Right-click on any link and choose Open in New Window. Resize the resulting secondary window to the size you want for all secondary windows. Now close the window by holding the Shift key and clicking the X icon in its top-right-hand corner. Set the remaining window to the size you want IE to have when initially launched, and close it in the same way. IE should now remember your preferred window sizes. If it forgets after a while, apply this simple fix again.

[sine_nomine]

I have 1.2 gigs of speed, 512 megs of RAM.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks, I just got my copy of PC Magazine the other day and I see the piece on page 78, 79 in the Solutions section of the magazine!

[beckett]

[RoughDobermann]

LOL! Try this. Having a bad day at the office.

[Clinging Bitterly]

My experience is that a program will normally start up in the size and position in which it was last used. I like to keep my browser windows set to about 3/4 of screen width, and full height. I run a 1024 X 768 screen and set the font size in the browser one size up from normal, and I find the narrower window makes an easy to read column at arms length scrolling with the mouse wheel. The thing that messes that up the most is those nasty popups, and I hate those web pages that insist on resizing the window to what they think I should be viewing (though if I use Mozilla instead of IE, absolutely nothing messes with that). I spend ALL DAY at work and probably too much time at home staring at a screen and I know exactly how I want it laid out.

Here is what I usually do to reset all that: I'll open two browser windows, and I'll maximize one of them, and I'll set the other one to the size and position that I like. I'll then close the maximized one first, and the sized one second. Next time I start the browser, it will snap up right where I want it. This has worked for me in Win98 and WinXP Pro at home, and Win2K at work.

If you want to start maximized, I'd suggest opening two windows, maximizing one of them, and then close them, closing the maximized one last. I think that'll fix it.

Dave in Eugene

[Clinging Bitterly]

My experience is that a program will normally start up in the size and position in which it was last used. I like to keep my browser windows set to about 3/4 of screen width, and full height. I run a 1024 X 768 screen and set the font size in the browser one size up from normal, and I find the narrower window makes an easy to read column at arms length scrolling with the mouse wheel. The thing that messes that up the most is those nasty popups, and I hate those web pages that insist on resizing the window to what they think I should be viewing (though if I use Mozilla instead of IE, absolutely nothing messes with that). I spend ALL DAY at work and probably too much time at home staring at a screen and I know exactly how I want it laid out.

Here is what I usually do to reset all that: I'll open two browser windows, and I'll maximize one of them, and I'll set the other one to the size and position that I like. I'll then close the maximized one first, and the sized one second. Next time I start the browser, it will snap up right where I want it. This has worked for me in Win98 and WinXP Pro at home, and Win2K at work.

If you want to start maximized, I'd suggest opening two windows, maximizing one of them, and then close them, closing the maximized one last. I think that'll fix it.

Dave in Eugene

[Uri’el-2012]

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