re: windows stuck at maximal size
Friday, January 30, 2004 at 7:28 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by triplate
(20746 messages posted)
Does F11 key reset it??
On Friday, January 30, 2004 at 7:17 pm, jim wrote:
>Windows XP seems to get windows stuck at their maximized size without actually being
>maximized: they are in the variable size mode but just take up the entire desktop.
> This means the only way you can resize it is to (1) move it partially offscreen
>so you can grab a corner, (2) resize it to something smaller and (3) move it back
>since step (1) moved part of it off the desktop. Very annoying.
>
>Oftentimes, this happens when you've maximized the application and closed it so
that
>the next time you start up, it starts up large taking up the entire desktop but
*not*
>in a maximized state. What is really annoying, though, is when you haven't actually
>closed the application or when it just seems to decide that, having at some point
>been maximized, the next window brought up in the (multiple windows) application
>will be full-sized but not maximized.
>
>Amazing how the folks at Microsoft can introduce stupidities such as this. Anyone
>know of any patches or workarounds?
>
>Thanks.
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