Whoo fucking Hoo!!!
That seems to have fixed it, we’ll see if it still works once I reboot one time, but I’m thinking that licked it. Thanks galt. Now I’m fearing what else a couple of lines of code can do when scripted and clicked. Damn there is so much about computers I don’t know.
Sonofabitch!
No luck, worked until I rebooted. Now its in that same annoying size. Fucking Windows piece of shit.
Well, IE is going to save its window size there occasionally, regardless of how often you delete it. That’s why I would suggest keeping the shortcut to the script handy.
Remember, most software thinks it knows what you want better than you do, and it’s afraid to ask you, because it thinks you’ll be confused by the question. Fight the power!
I’m not sure what’s causing trouble on your machine…
But with all of my machines, IE5 sizes in a new window to the previously sized minimized IE window.
Wait, that’s a bit hard to understand…
Why can’t you just double-click on the top bar and maximize it?
Aside from this quirk, some websites will assign window sizes in their code.
-Sam
Gawd, you’re right I can just click and maximize it, but damn it I shouldn’t have to. It isn’t inhibiting me from using the damn thing, and its a minor quirk, but I can’t imagine its a appropriate characteristic and therefore ought to be repairable. Guess I’m just not apathetic enough, or completely obsessive…depends on your point of view I guess.
Also I am aware of the javascript commands and I know this isn’t the case here.
galt, I did put that script on my desktop, but I was hoping for a more permanent fix. One thing that confuses me is that my browser picked up this small square sizing several months ago when I had several IE windows tiled across my screen. Now it opens all new windows at this odd size. I ran your script which fixed it for that session (much like the dragging it to a new size and closing it trick) but once I restarted it returned to that odd square. Now, if it kept defualting to a new random size I’d used in teh past then it’d make sense and I’d just assume that IE/Windows picked up some new defualt some how. The perplexing part is that your script seems to erase the problem temporarily, but then I restart it reverts to the previous flawed size. Now if your script overwrote the correct registry entry it wouldn’t have that odd size to refer back to. So my gut tells me that the script is a bandaid over the problem as opposed to a actual fix. While I conceed I may not be able to stop IE from assigning odd defualt sizes, I’d think I could at least set the defualt size to the factory defualt once in a while. You script doesn’t appear to do that. Any more suggestions? Thanks again.
I’m a Netscaper myself, but here goes:
Microsoft don’t know nothin’ ‘bout nothin’:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q197/0/29.ASP
There’s a guy in England who Microsoft oughta hire:
http://www.digitalspider.co.uk/ie/tips/window_size_and_position_ie.html
I hope one of these does the trick.
Simply selecting “remember size” from the left menu in Gnome works for me. 