[RoughDobermann]

Thanks for any advice and sorry for the vanity, but it's driving me nuts...

[smith288]

Yea, maximize it, close it and restart it. I think that works for me

[Hodar]

Occassionally happens ... did you recently reload your video drivers? Or did you change your screen resolution? That will do it.... Just maximize, then exit the program. It should re-maximize when you re-open the program.

[Always Right]

In the old Windows 98/ME, you could open the properties of the icon and tell it to maximize windows. Haven't played with XP too much..

[Drango]

Have you tried logging on?

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Buy the XP Professional Upgrade. The Home edition is crap.

[sine_nomine]

May I add my problem? I have an HP computer with a flat screen monitor. Every so often the image freezes in a total crash or the monitor simply goes nuts. It is very inconsistent, but happening a lot lately.

I thought my old mouse was the problem but it happens with the new one.

I hated the HP stuff loaded on the hard drive so I reformatted and put on XP Pro.

[discostu]

XP's window handling really went in the crapper. It's decided how to open the app and that's about all there is to it. There's probably a registry entry you could delete, but that's a dangerous game. Wanna have real fun and see how badly they F'd up window controls: open multiple IE's (or anything else that will run multiple instances), get the situated so you can see their blocks on the task bar, click one of the blocks, click another, keep clicking around and pay attention to which one you click and which one actually gets the focus, about 1/4 of the time it'll go to some other seemingly random window. I play with that whenever I do multiple downloads.

[Steely Glint]

Easy answer.

1. For each program you want to start maximized in XP, right click on its icon on your screen.

2. Select "Properties" from the menu this generates.

3. Select the "Shorcut" tab within the "Properties" window.

4. Within the "Shorcut" tab, find the "Run" window, and use the arrow on its right side to pull down the drop-down run menu and select "Maximized."

5. Click the "Apply" button.

6. Click the "Okay" button

The problem is now solved for that program. Repeat this for all programs that you want to run maximized.

[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.

[beckett]

[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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