IE7 won't maximize

All of a sudden, IE7 will not start maximized. I have manually resized the
window and exited it, but the next time I start the program it still will
not open maximized. I have also restarted my PC which didn't help. It is
installed on a Vista Premium computer. I had this problem on my XP computer
and had to uninstall and reinstall IE to fix it. Is that my solution or is
there a more simple way of fixing the problem. Is there a way to repair IE
on a Vista computer? Any help is much
appreciated. Thank you.

Right-click on the IE icon located on the taskbar
and select Properties > Shortcut tab > Run > Maximized
and then click Apply.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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"Bill W" wrote:

All of a sudden, IE7 will not start maximized. I have manually resized the
window and exited it, but the next time I start the program it still will
not open maximized. I have also restarted my PC which didn't help. It is
installed on a Vista Premium computer. I had this problem on my XP computer
and had to uninstall and reinstall IE to fix it. Is that my solution or is
there a more simple way of fixing the problem. Is there a way to repair IE
on a Vista computer? Any help is much
appreciated. Thank you.

Properties does not show when I click on the task bar icon. This is
happening when I try to click on a desktop icon.

"Carey Frisch [MVP]" <> wrote in message
news:%...
> Right-click on the IE icon located on the taskbar
> and select Properties > Shortcut tab > Run > Maximized
> and then click Apply.
>
> --
> Carey Frisch
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows Shell/User
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
> "Bill W" wrote:
>
> All of a sudden, IE7 will not start maximized. I have manually resized
> the
> window and exited it, but the next time I start the program it still will
> not open maximized. I have also restarted my PC which didn't help. It is
> installed on a Vista Premium computer. I had this problem on my XP
> computer
> and had to uninstall and reinstall IE to fix it. Is that my solution or
> is
> there a more simple way of fixing the problem. Is there a way to repair
> IE
> on a Vista computer? Any help is much
> appreciated. Thank you.
>

In article <>, Bill W <> says...
> Properties does not show when I click on the task bar icon. This is
> happening when I try to click on a desktop icon.

This will help: Open an IE-window, drag it at the right size,
open another IE-window, drag it too at the right size. Close the
first window with Alt-F4, then close the 2nt window with Alt-F4.

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Bill W wrote:
> All of a sudden, IE7 will not start maximized. I have manually
> resized the window and exited it, but the next time I start the
> program it still will not open maximized. I have also restarted my
> PC which didn't help. It is installed on a Vista Premium computer. I had
> this problem on my XP computer and had to uninstall and
> reinstall IE to fix it. Is that my solution or is there a more
> simple way of fixing the problem. Is there a way to repair IE on a
> Vista computer? Any help is much appreciated. Thank you.

"Re-sizing" is not the same thing as "Maximizing."

Do you have a box in the upper right corner between the underscore and the
"X"? Or do you have a double-box?

If a double-box, select it. Presto - screen "Maximized."

Thank you! That did it. Thanks for sticking with me. I really appreciate
your help.


"Jawade" <> wrote in message
news: ...
> In article <>, Bill W
> <> says...
>> Properties does not show when I click on the task bar icon. This is
>> happening when I try to click on a desktop icon.
>
> This will help: Open an IE-window, drag it at the right size,
> open another IE-window, drag it too at the right size. Close the
> first window with Alt-F4, then close the 2nt window with Alt-F4.
>
> --
> Met vriendelijke groeten, Jawade. Weer veel vernieuwd!
> http://jawade.nl/ Met een mirror op http://jawade.fortunecity.com/
> Bootmanager (+Vista +Linux), ClrMBR, DiskEdit (+Linux), POP3lezer,
> DOS-Filebrowser, Kalender, Webtellers en IP-log, USB-stick tester.

"HeyBub" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Bill W wrote:
>> All of a sudden, IE7 will not start maximized. I have manually
>> resized the window and exited it, but the next time I start the
>> program it still will not open maximized. I have also restarted my
>> PC which didn't help. It is installed on a Vista Premium computer. I had
>> this problem on my XP computer and had to uninstall and
>> reinstall IE to fix it. Is that my solution or is there a more
>> simple way of fixing the problem. Is there a way to repair IE on a
>> Vista computer? Any help is much appreciated. Thank you.
>
> "Re-sizing" is not the same thing as "Maximizing."
>
> Do you have a box in the upper right corner between the underscore and the
> "X"? Or do you have a double-box?
>
> If a double-box, select it. Presto - screen "Maximized."
>
You are right, they are not the same. However, when re-sized, one can easily
drag a window to the side of the screen when you wish. Not true when
maximized.

Hi, Bill.

There are three ways to get a window to fill a screen. They may look almost
the same to us humans, but Vista sees them differently.

1. Maximized widow - this is what we get by clicking the box in the upper
right corner.

2. Normal window stretched with the mouse or arrow keys to fill the
screen.

3. Full-screen - this is what we get by toggling the F11 key (in most
applications, not all).

As the others said, we can set a program's Properties to Run Maximized, but
this doesn't work for some programs. The
stretched-Normal-window-closed-last method works, but we can accidentally
undo it by closing a small window after all the large windows have been
closed, so then we have to do it again: stretch a window and be sure it is
the last one we close for this program. The Full-screen usually works, but
it usually is not what we are really after.

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX

Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1)

"Bill W" <> wrote in message
news:. ..
> All of a sudden, IE7 will not start maximized. I have manually resized
> the window and exited it, but the next time I start the program it still
> will
> not open maximized. I have also restarted my PC which didn't help. It is
> installed on a Vista Premium computer. I had this problem on my XP
> computer
> and had to uninstall and reinstall IE to fix it. Is that my solution or
> is there a more simple way of fixing the problem. Is there a way to
> repair IE on a Vista computer? Any help is much
> appreciated. Thank you.