How to limit Max size of WLM windows

Is there a reg trick to limit the Maximum size of WLM windows? I provide
my mother(91 yrs) with help through RA session. She often has
difficulty with WLM because it is inadvertently maximized.
Could anyone help?

Greetings churin,

Well, it should use the last size of the last window opened. As such, with no conversation
windows open, go to the contact list and open up a conversation with anyone online. If it
opens maximized, restore it back to it's normal un-maximized state. Now close that
conversation window.

Open up the conversation window again and it should open normally as should all future
windows.

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"churin" <> wrote in message
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> Is there a reg trick to limit the Maximum size of WLM windows? I provide my mother(91 yrs)
> with help through RA session. She often has difficulty with WLM because it is inadvertently
> maximized.
> Could anyone help?

Greetings Kay,

The problem is that she very often thinks what she is seeing on the
screen is the only thing going and is not aware or forget that the
windows she *inadvertently* maximized is covering displays of other
activities. When I am instructing her over phone what to do she very
often says "I don't see that". She forgets how to restore, move or
resize windows or difficulty doing these.

What I am wondering is if there is a way to alleviate difficulty as
above or a foolproof way to prevent the windows size to grow
unnecessarily large. WLM and Conversation windows never need to be large
to fill the entire monitor screen.

Jonathan Kay [MVP] wrote:
> Greetings churin,
>
> Well, it should use the last size of the last window opened. As such, with no conversation
> windows open, go to the contact list and open up a conversation with anyone online. If it
> opens maximized, restore it back to it's normal un-maximized state. Now close that
> conversation window.
>
> Open up the conversation window again and it should open normally as should all future
> windows.
>