Windows Automatically Resizing To Full Screen, But Not Maximized!

[JackRazz]

I'm using Windows XP and it has this irrating habit of resizing my windows
when they are in their normalized size. They are resized to take up the
full screen, just like a maximized window. It seem's to happen primarily to
Internet Explorer 6.0 windows, but also a lot to Visual Studio .NET as well.
I suspect java scripts from within Internet Explorer, but can never to find
the script or the web site responsible for it.

First, does anyone else experience this problem? What causes it? My
Windows 98 never did it. Is there a fix?

Thanks - JackRazz

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

I'm using Windows XP and it has this irrating habit of resizing

my windows when they are in their normalized size.

The most important way of avoiding it that I have found is not leave
my windows maximized when I close them or shutdown (that is the hardest
thing to remember to deal with). Secondly, I have made my normal
windows smaller and squarer than I might otherwise have done and
then toggled into maximized mode or Fullscreen mode when that size
seemed too awkward to use.

They probably think that they are doing me a favour and reacting to all
the clamour that there is from others about not saving maximized mode
as a preference but I would much prefer to have my normal mode windows
left alone and be allowed to manage maximized and Fullscreen modes
on my own. I suspect that they need a mode switch or at least some
mechanism which can take into consideration both screen size and user
experience level.

 

[JackRazz]

Robert,
Thanks for the info. Do you have any idea which web sites are doing this?
Have you ever seen the java scripts that do it. I could try to use
Proxomitron to kill the little bugger script if i could find it.

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

Robert,
Thanks for the info. Do you have any idea which web sites are doing this?

The problem I was describing is more of a Windows thing
than an IE thing. OE is where I notice it the most.

Have you ever seen the java scripts that do it.

I doubt that the implementation is script based.
I have imagined that it could be based on some very tentative attempts
at the use of a soft-computing technology such as a neural network
but I really don't know. It's not very good at "learning" if that's what it is
because rather than it adapt to support my preferences, as I have described
I have ended up adapting to its rigid repertoire of behaviours.


Robert

 

[JackRazz]

Ok, Robert. I had no idea that any MS software was doing adaptive learning.
I've updated Proxomitron's resize filter for web pages today, but if your
right, it won't work. I'll keep an eye on OE and see if thats who causes
it.


Thanks - JackRazz