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Julian
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      02-12-2007
Why when a window is maximized, its 'glass effect' will disappear?
 
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Richard Urban
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      02-12-2007
Yes, by design.

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      02-12-2007
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> Why when a window is maximized, its 'glass effect' will disappear?


This is true. Cannot say why.
 
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Robert Firth
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      02-12-2007
True. You can work around this by:

1.) Opening the window you would like to display with the glass when in full
screen (like Internet Explorer)
2.) Right clicking on the task bar
3.) Select "Show Windows Side by Side"

This will resize the window so that it is in full screen, but with glass. If
you accidentally resize the screen (but not maximize it), you will have to
repeat this process again. You will see, it is easier to see when you
experiment with it.

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> Richard Urban
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> Quote from George Ankner:
> If you knew as much as you think you know,
> You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
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>> Why when a window is maximized, its 'glass effect' will disappear?

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Richard Urban
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      02-12-2007
Maybe so you can tell the difference between a maximized window and one that
been enlarged to take up the entire desktop?

How many times has someone told you they couldn't restore a window only to
find out that it "was" in fact restored, to the maximum size allowed. It
confuses the heck out of new users. They can't tell the difference between
that and maximized.

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> This is true. Cannot say why.


 
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