Does anyone know how to change the size a window is when you right click a link to open in a new window? For some reason, whenever I right click a link to open in a new window, the size is -just- under a full screen size, so if I forget to full size it, and I just go to hit “x” I very often kill the window underneath it. Very annoying!
Thanks!
In a word…you can’t, with IE. You can drag the lower right corner to make the window bigger, and it will, or should, stay that way each time you open a new window. However, as soon as you close all windows, it reverts back to the way it was. At least that is my experience with IE. If there is a way to make IE open new windows maximized, I sure hope somebody knows how to do it because I have tried everything suggested in the past, and it didn’t work.
Nutscrape, up to version 4.7X does open maximized, at least on my pc. That is the only reason I like it. Nutscrape 6 doesn’t – it works like IE – and it just plain sucks.
I have IE 5.5, and it always opens a new window the same size as the original one.
Try this: Close all of your IE windows until you have only one IE remaining. Size it so it’s obviously less than a full screen. Now close it. Now bring up IE again and see if it remembers the screen size.
I’m not a PC expert, so take the following advice at your own risk. However, if you are desperate, there is one last thing to try before a complete re-install of IE. Go to accessories/system tools/system information. On the “Tools” menu, there is an option called “Internet Explorer Repair Tool”. As I understand it, this attempts to re-install IE from the files downloaded when you last installed and/or updated IE. If you have changed the IE toolbars or something like that, you may lose those changes. I tried this and it fixed a different problem I was having with IE. However, the problem came back, so the problem source was probably not IE.
Okay, I’ve got IE5, and I tried Open New Window just now with my working window at the one-square-box-icon small window size, and the new window came up at two-little-square-boxes-stacked-together-icon full-size window. So I know what Bernse is talking about.
The only thing I can suggest is that if you’re working with multiple windows, you do like I do and keep careful track of what’s in the tray (the Taskbar), and then be very careful about which X you’re clicking on to close a window. Go to Start, Settings, Taskbar, Always On Top. And get in the habit of minimizing windows rather than closing them, and only close a window when you’re absolutely sure (a) it’s the right one and (b) you’re done with it.
Under controlpanel:internet properties:advanced is a selection to ‘reuse windows’ when there is a link which you might want to change. Haven’t the foggiest idea what it does, but it may be what you want.
I think it depends on the order you open the windows, and the order you close them, as to which window size it will remember.
Open one instance. Then choose Ctrl-N to open a second. Resize that second one. Close it. Close the first one.
Did that work?
Well, the ctrl-N opened one full screen, which is what I wanted. However, if I rightclick on a link and open a new window as the option, it opens it to that annoying 99% size again. Damn. I am beginning to wonder if you can’t do anything, but I know that depending on some websites you visit, if they use pop-ups that changes it sometimes.
Eric
Maybe you should get version 5.5? 5 is old now.
Success. I discovered that if you resize the window (full screen doesen’t seem to want to work for me), cancel the original window underneath it, then cancel the window you just opened, it remembers the new size.
Yay.