Windows size

[Noreen]

I have the basic Windows size opening to maximum but if I click on a link in a post it comes up in the reduced size and I have to click on the maximise button at top right to enlarge it. Is there any way (in Vista) to make such links always open at maximised size? I'm sure they did on my previous XP machine. It's obviously not a lot of trouble but it's irritating.

[Rik]

I really don't know, Noreen. I've always found IE7 a bit 'illogical' in its sizing decisions, it also tends to wander around the screen if I don't maximise it (which I don't want to do on a 1920x1200 screen).

This might help:

http://vlaurie.com/computers2/Articles/ietips.htm

[Noreen]

Yes, I did have IE6 previously, Rik, perhaps that's the difference. I see that your link is for XP.

[Rik]

The above link is reported to work with IE7 although it refers to IE6.

[Simon]

I'm pretty sure, if you size a window how you want it, by dragging the sides, then close that window, Windows will remember the size, and open it next time in that same size.  Give that a try, Noreen, but make sure you only have one IE window open when you do it. 

[Noreen]

Thanks Simon, that worked. I'd been trying to do it with the first Window still open and then it didn't work. I hope that it now remembers.

[Inactive]

I read this and thought Noreen was having new double glazing.

[Rik]

 

Nice thought, In. This is much more troublesome though.

[sobranie]

The prob with this is there doesn't appear to be an absolutely foolproof way to do it.
A method that works reasonably well is to run IE, then hold down Ctrl+Shift+Alt while you use the mouse (clicking on the re-size bar on the bottom right of the screen to size the window as you want it. Now, still holding down Ctrl ShiftAlt click the close box (x in upper right hand corner of the window.
IE will now normally open maximised.
The only way you'll lose this setting is if you minimise IE and click the close box x at any time which seems to force IE to start minimised when you next use it. 

[Dopamine]

This is slightly at a tangent to the original question, but for anyone who prefers to use IE as their default browser rather than Firefox or the other well known alternatives, I heartily recommend Avant Browser. It's basically IE with a few added bits: better tabbed browsing, mouse "gestures" that make navigating from window to window or back and forward much, much faster and easier than IE.

It was the original question's window reference that made me think of Avant, as Avant doesn't seem to suffer that problem.

http://www.avantbrowser.com/

[Rik]

I take it you're using it? Do you see many issues with sites not rendering correctly?

[Simon]

I believe it uses the IE engine, so anything that works in IE should work in Avant.

[Dopamine]

I take it you're using it? Do you see many issues with sites not rendering correctly?

Yes, I've used it for the last 3 years through all its upgrades, and have never had a problem with any website. Its beauty is that it is based on IE so has almost universal compatibility across the web.

This really is one piece of software that has successfully refined a Windows based program without totally re-engineering it, with all the compatibility issues that that often causes.