saving geometry of a window

[Daniel C. Bastos]

Most programs save the geometry of the window when you change it and
sometimes even the position on the desktop so that when you re-open the
program, it will be there where you left it.

I use a program which seems not to do that. Can I tell Windows somehow
where to put the program's window and how large the window must be?

 

[Guest]

Yes create a shortcut of the EXE file and place it in the start up folder and
when XP boots up it will start the program. Make sure it is in the right
start up folder for it to work.

 

[Daniel C. Bastos]

Hi Vincent.

Yes create a shortcut of the EXE file and place it in the start up folder and
when XP boots up it will start the program. Make sure it is in the right
start up folder for it to work.

I suppose I didn't express myself very well. I'll clarify below.

This means that some programs know their position on the screen and the
size of their own windows and when they run, they check their last
position and tell Windows to show them right where they were when they
were closed.

This means that I have a program which every time I open it, it displays
its window with a default size, so I always have to resize it to my
preference.

I believe that window size and position is something that the program
tells Windows to be done; so I wonder if I can, without the source code
of the program, tell windows to always put one particular program in one
position and one size; so I would do it for this one program and be
happy.

Did I clarify?

 

[Daniel C. Bastos]

Most programs save the geometry of the window when you change it and
sometimes even the position on the desktop so that when you re-open the
program, it will be there where you left it.

I use a program which seems not to do that. Can I tell Windows somehow
where to put the program's window and how large the window must be?

For the record, I haven't found a way to do this satisfactorily, but
it must be possible since I found a program that allows the user to
control other programs' windows.

http://www.actualtools.com/windowguard/

The program, however, seems to set every child window of the
badly-behaved program to the same size, which is unsatisfactory in
some cases.