IE7 won't maximize

[Bill W]

All of a sudden, IE7 will not start maximized. I have manually resized the
window and exited it, but the next time I start the program it still will
not open maximized. I have also restarted my PC which didn't help. It is
installed on a Vista Premium computer. I had this problem on my XP computer
and had to uninstall and reinstall IE to fix it. Is that my solution or is
there a more simple way of fixing the problem. Is there a way to repair IE
on a Vista computer? Any help is much
appreciated. Thank you.

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Right-click on the IE icon located on the taskbar
and select Properties > Shortcut tab > Run > Maximized
and then click Apply.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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All of a sudden, IE7 will not start maximized. I have manually resized the
window and exited it, but the next time I start the program it still will
not open maximized. I have also restarted my PC which didn't help. It is
installed on a Vista Premium computer. I had this problem on my XP computer
and had to uninstall and reinstall IE to fix it. Is that my solution or is
there a more simple way of fixing the problem. Is there a way to repair IE
on a Vista computer? Any help is much
appreciated. Thank you.

 

[Bill W]

Properties does not show when I click on the task bar icon. This is
happening when I try to click on a desktop icon.

 

[Jawade]

Properties does not show when I click on the task bar icon. This is
happening when I try to click on a desktop icon.

This will help: Open an IE-window, drag it at the right size,
open another IE-window, drag it too at the right size. Close the
first window with Alt-F4, then close the 2nt window with Alt-F4.

 

[HeyBub]

All of a sudden, IE7 will not start maximized. I have manually
resized the window and exited it, but the next time I start the
program it still will not open maximized. I have also restarted my
PC which didn't help. It is installed on a Vista Premium computer. I had
this problem on my XP computer and had to uninstall and
reinstall IE to fix it. Is that my solution or is there a more
simple way of fixing the problem. Is there a way to repair IE on a
Vista computer? Any help is much appreciated. Thank you.

"Re-sizing" is not the same thing as "Maximizing."

Do you have a box in the upper right corner between the underscore and the
"X"? Or do you have a double-box?

If a double-box, select it. Presto - screen "Maximized."

 

[Bill W]

Thank you! That did it. Thanks for sticking with me. I really appreciate
your help.

 

[Charles W Davis]

"Re-sizing" is not the same thing as "Maximizing."

Do you have a box in the upper right corner between the underscore and the
"X"? Or do you have a double-box?

If a double-box, select it. Presto - screen "Maximized."

You are right, they are not the same. However, when re-sized, one can easily
drag a window to the side of the screen when you wish. Not true when
maximized.

 

[R. C. White]

Hi, Bill.

There are three ways to get a window to fill a screen. They may look almost
the same to us humans, but Vista sees them differently.

1. Maximized widow - this is what we get by clicking the box in the upper
right corner.

2. Normal window stretched with the mouse or arrow keys to fill the
screen.

3. Full-screen - this is what we get by toggling the F11 key (in most
applications, not all).

As the others said, we can set a program's Properties to Run Maximized, but
this doesn't work for some programs. The
stretched-Normal-window-closed-last method works, but we can accidentally
undo it by closing a small window after all the large windows have been
closed, so then we have to do it again: stretch a window and be sure it is
the last one we close for this program. The Full-screen usually works, but
it usually is not what we are really after.

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(e-mail address removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1)