Windows 7 how do I get permenant fullscreen?

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Steve Day

How can I make the pages and folders open maximised IE fullscreen on windows
7 please, I would like them to open fullscreen by default. Dragging out
doesnt work nor does F11 as the next time I open it is back to the third
sized screen.
cheers
NR
 
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R. C. White

Hi, Steve.

This has always been problematic in Windows, it seems. There are two
related problems: The definition of "full screen", and how to make the
selection stick.

First, when we say "full screen", we might mean:

1. What Microsoft calls "full screen", which is what we get with the
<F11> key toggle.

2. Maximized - which is what we get when we click the square icon near
the X in the red corner; if it is already Maximized, this square becomes
"Restore Down".

3. A "normal" window, stretched by using the mouse or keyboard, to cover
the entire visible desktop.

These may look the same - or almost the same - to our eyes, but Windows
knows the differences.

To get full-time Maximized windows, we can right-click on the shortcut that
starts the app, then Properties, and choose "Maximized" in the Run box. In
my experience, this usually works - but not always.

The time-honored method is to choose "Normal window", then stretch it as in
#2 above, and then make sure that the "full" window is the LAST one closed
when we exit the app. All too often, though, after reading a web page, for
example, in the full window, we click the X to exit the browser - only to
find a small window lurking behind the one we were reading. The small
window may have been a pop-under ad so we quickly close it. Gotcha! That
small window is the LAST browser window closed in that session, so Windows
remembers that small size next time we start the browser.

But, like many other users, I've never understood why we can't Maximize a
window, then close it, and have Windows remember that we like that app to be
Maximized. But it will remember the LAST size of a "normal window".

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(e-mail address removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP
Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8089.0726) in Win7 Ultimate x64)
 
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Steve Day

Hi RC thanks for the swift response, There does not appear to be a run box
to click maximise
in , in the properties section.

And the age old fav of stretching does not work either, its got me
completewly baffled.

Respects
Steve
 
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Steve Day

Ok RC slight correction, using your kind advice I can now open IE fully
automatically
thanks very much for your help, but al
l the other apps and shortcuts still only open small and wont stay full
sized after they have been closed down and reopened.

Steve
 
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Grenou

Steve Day said:
How can I make the pages and folders open maximised IE fullscreen on
windows
7 please, I would like them to open fullscreen by default. Dragging out
doesnt work nor does F11 as the next time I open it is back to the third
sized screen.
cheers
NR

It's very annoying, not only doesn't the window remember it's previous
setting, on my computer it seems to 'wander' from left to right every time I
open a window, it's shifted a tad to the right unless I immediately move it.
Not MS' finest hour when they decided to make it this way.

I use the Windows key + Left Arrow key to get the window to fill half the
screen on the left, or the Up Arrow key to open full width, or the Right
Arrow to half open on the right.
It's as good as it seems to get.
Hope this info helps :)

Grenou
 
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Brian Gregory [UK]

R. C. White said:
But, like many other users, I've never understood why we can't Maximize a
window, then close it, and have Windows remember that we like that app to
be Maximized
That works for Explorer and Internet Explorer Windows in Windows XP.

But is it really such a hardship to have to do one single extra mouse click
to maximize a window you want maximized?
 
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Simon Jones

It's very annoying, not only doesn't the window remember it's previous
setting, on my computer it seems to 'wander' from left to right every time I
open a window, it's shifted a tad to the right unless I immediately move it.
Not MS' finest hour when they decided to make it this way.

I use the Windows key + Left Arrow key to get the window to fill half the
screen on the left, or the Up Arrow key to open full width, or the Right
Arrow to half open on the right.
It's as good as it seems to get.
Hope this info helps :)

Grenou
Well, while we're on the subject, is there anyway to open all windows
centred on the screen?
 

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