Window size problem

[John Carter]

Windows XP Pro SP3, all up to date, IE7 , also all up to date.

Last night I needed to have an Excel window open beside an IE 7 window.
I resized my IE window to half width, did what I wanted, and closed the
IE window. Now each time I open IE, it opens to the half width size
rather than the size I usually open it at - full width.

I have tried to close it with some combination of SHIFT/CTRL/ALT after
making it the desired size, thinking back somewhere that some key
combination pressed when closing the application would retain the
current window sizing.

So far, no success. Can someone help me out ?

 

[Bruce Hagen]

Windows XP Pro SP3, all up to date, IE7 , also all up to date.

Last night I needed to have an Excel window open beside an IE 7 window.
I resized my IE window to half width, did what I wanted, and closed the
IE window. Now each time I open IE, it opens to the half width size
rather than the size I usually open it at - full width.

I have tried to close it with some combination of SHIFT/CTRL/ALT after
making it the desired size, thinking back somewhere that some key
combination pressed when closing the application would retain the
current window sizing.

So far, no success. Can someone help me out ?

Any window you want to resize permanently must be the /last/ window closed.

Grab the corners of the window and drag it to full screen size. Do not use
Maximize. Close all other windows first via the Taskbar and this one last.
Windows will remember the *last* screen size used the next time you open the
program.

 

[Bernd]

Any window you want to resize permanently must be the /last/ window closed.

Grab the corners of the window and drag it to full screen size. Do not
use Maximize. Close all other windows first via the Taskbar and this one
last. Windows will remember the *last* screen size used the next time
you open the program.

It works WITH Maximize. Just tested with IE8.

Bernd