[chuckip]

I have a 19" Widescreen Samsung Monitor.

With no warning, I'net Windows now only open up to about 80% of the horizontal screen. Before, the windows always opened up to the full area available on the screen.

I can use the two way arrow to drag the edge over to open it up or click on the Maximize Icon to fill the screen, but then it "defaults" back to the less than max size the next time I open that site or any other!

I have use the Search function and read the "HELP" Section for 45 mins and can't find a setting that would ALWAYS open up an I'net site to the full width and hight of the screen (less the info bar at the bottom).

Thanx for any help you can give me to solve this puzzle?

CHUCK

[chuckip]

I am sure someone out there knows the answer to my simple question about keeping Internet windows maximized on my 19" monitor??????????

HELP?

[uhaligani]

I think this came up in another thread, but I cannot find it. My solution was to maximise the window and then hold shift and exit normally. It worked for some but for an odd reason not all.

[chuckip]

Thank you for at least trying to answer my question.

Surely there HAS to be (with all of the dozens if not hundreds of settings in Windows Vista) a setting for IE7 that gives you the option of having all Net windows automatically open up to full screen size???

Does anyone know of such a setting, or, if not, of some kind of work around???

PS: I can go in and double click on the menu bar at the top of each window to open the page full screen and then links from that page also open up that way, but new pages always open up about 80% of the full width although it does go all the way from the top to the bottom.

Chuck

[uhaligani]

OK Chuck. I found this in some notes I have. They came from Technet originally. I have just tried the tip and it worked for me:
Find the shortcut (or make one) for the IE7 browser. Right click on it
selecting properties. Where it says 'run', click on the little down
pointing arrow and change to from "normal" to maximized. Now click on
BOTH apply and save. The next time you click on the shortcut the
browser should open full screen and fill your monitor's screen.

If you prefer to make it some size less than full screen repeat the
steps but leave the "normal" window setting then when it opens while
holding down your left mouse once you see the double headed cursor
which you will once you move it over a corner of any window drag a
corner of said window out and away from the center to make larger or
in towards the center to make it smaller. Again be sure to click on
apply and save. This works not just for the browser, but almost any
application or applet appearing in a window. The down side which
you'll have to ask Microsoft about is the change doesn't always get
remembered for sizing, it does change from normal to maximized without
problem.