re: windows stuck at maximal size
Wednesday, February 25, 2004 at 4:20 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by bluhboy
(6 messages posted)
After asking around, it seems that a lot of folks find this problem annoying but,
surprisingly enough, I have yet to find a solution to it. There seems to be a lot
of folks on annoyances.org that ask about how to maximize a window upon startup but
no one seems to ask about how to avoid the forced maximized size that is, in fact,
not a maximized window but a "normal mode" window stretched out to the maximized
size. Upon further experience, it seems that the bug is a system level one: it confuses
the last application that had the window at maximized size and may cause another
application to open up in that weird stretched-to-max size, instead. Any ideas?
On Saturday, January 31, 2004 at 3:12 pm, jim wrote:
>Frustration, I suppose. This problem is particularly annoying since it is so cumbersome
>to fix up. It is also difficult to reproduce: in my reply to the F11 suggestion,
>I had to re-create the problem. So I closed an application with the window maximized
>and then re-started it. It didn't exhibit the behavior. I tried again and again
>over the following half an hour without success. Then, after returning to my work
>it happened. I can't even remember the sequence of steps except that I hadn't actually
>closed any applications although there were some maximized windows. Of course,
I
>can't very well avoid using maximized windows entirely just to avoid this problem
>- I would simply just like to be able to have certain windows maxmized and certain
>windows resizeable.
>(By the way, I took the opportunity to test the F11 suggestion and it didn't work.)
>
>So, why blame it on Microsoft? I suppose, having used Windows 3.1, 95, 98, NT,
2000,
>Me and not noticing this problem until XP (and I've seen it all three versions,
Home,
>Professional and Tablet) it does truly seem like a bug introduced to Windows XP.
> I know several other people who find this a frustrating problem but I they aren't
> the sort that would search out forums to try to resolve the problem.
>
>"Stupid" was in part a result of the frustration (it is easy to accidentally close
>the window when trying to drag it and resize it) and also in part knowing that such
>unpredictable bugs - by which I mean it is difficult to reproduce the behavior but
>it almost always show up a number of times a day - are especially disturbing because
>they indicate that the problem may be the result of sloppy work by a company that
>is creating new operating systems versions that seem to confuse differences with
>improvements. Like the auto mechanic you always feel may be creating more problems
>in your car to get return business, it seems like the new operating systems have
>to meet a quota of problems so that Microsoft can justify its business of introducing
>newer versions every year or so.
>
>
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