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Win7 Internet Explorer question

16 years ago

For IE on XP and Vista, when you wanted to enlarge the size of IE screen and have it remain the same, you would click and drag the sides and bottom to where you wanted it, then using the menu bar at the top select File, then exit. When you open up IE the next time, the page should stay expanded to where you left it. Got this Win7 laptop today and it doesnt stick like it did on the other two OS.

Doing something wrong?????

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owbist
16 years ago
No you are doing nothing wrong Gene. I read an article somewhere that MS had deliberately set it that way, crazy in my mind. I seem to have dragged mine out enough times that it has quit fighting with me and I had not realised it till you posted the question.

When I visit others I see they leave it that way, seems pointless to have a 22 inch monitor to view 16 inch screens.

The link below has some tremendous tutorials and wallpaper if you are interested.

Here is a link that might be useful: Loads of Win 7 tutorials
genes
Original Author
16 years ago
Thanks, thought I might be losing my mind...lol
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fiddledeedee
16 years ago
I had this same problem..for the life of me I can't remember what I found to fix it...I know one thing I did,,, I right clicked on the IE shortcut...then on Internet Explorer..properties.. and then clicked on Maximize on Run...
Maybe this will help...
Jackie
genes
Original Author
16 years ago
That did it, worked like a treat. Thanks
genes
Original Author
16 years ago
Looked like it was going to work, but didnt. Settings are still on maximized but page is opening slightly smaller.
Any other tricks out there?
ravencajun Zone 8b TX
16 years ago
this is the trick I have read that seems to work best.

Open a webpage. Stretch it out to fullsize. Don't use maximize.
Choose any link on that webpage and right-click> open in a new window.
Stretch that second window out to the desired size- don't use maximize.
Close the first IE window. Then close that second resized window.

here are a couple of other options you can download to do this too
AutoSizer 1.71
maximize
fiddledeedee
16 years ago
I think I remembered what I did a week ago with IE8...I went to the same box where I had clicked on Maximize and in the Target slot I typed in "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe"...... I found it by Googling and thought I had saved the site,,,but nope... anyway.. I followed the instructions and haven't had any problem at all since..
genes
Original Author
16 years ago
Fiddle; That looks like it may have done it, we shall wait and see.
Thanks

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