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julianhj

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8,871 posts

292 months

Sunday 29th January 2006
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It's a basic one, and I feel like a muppet for asking, but:

Whenever I open a new browser window, it's not full-size - how can I make all windows open full-size from the start, rather than having to click the icon in the top right?

Apologies

Muncher

12,235 posts

279 months

Sunday 29th January 2006
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I'm not sure how to make all windows do that, but if you right click a shortcut, choose properties you can set it to open maximised.

voyds9

8,490 posts

313 months

Sunday 29th January 2006
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Try this
1 open new window
2 maximise it
3 close all open windows
4 restart browser

Trooper2

6,676 posts

261 months

Sunday 29th January 2006
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Here is a useful little tool if you want to go one step further and open all IE windows in full screen:

www.jiisoft.com/iemaximizer/index.asp

mattley

3,039 posts

252 months

Sunday 29th January 2006
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IE remembers the size of the last window closed, but ignores maximised.


Make sure you only have one window open and resize it to as near max as you need.

Close it.

All new windows will now open at that size, but if you open loads they will offset.

Tabbed browsing will probably be implemented in IE7, as every other browser on the planet seems to be doing it, and it's way better.

falcemob

8,248 posts

266 months

Sunday 29th January 2006
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If you right click on your Internet Explorer short cut icon, click properties, the second box from the bottom should say 'Run' you then select 'Maximised' and Apply, that should do it.
The only thing is that it still wont open IE maximised if you right click a link and go 'open in new window'. I haven't found a way round that yet apart from making the last window you use as big as possible so it remembers next time.

julianhj

Original Poster:

8,871 posts

292 months

Sunday 29th January 2006
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Cheers for your assistance on this!

marctwo

3,666 posts

290 months

Monday 30th January 2006
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Download firefox. Run it. Maximise it. Use tabs. Sorted.

RoadRailer

599 posts

258 months

Tuesday 31st January 2006
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Firefox

With the IE tab extension (for those poorly coded pages or windows update )...