Whenever I open a new window it is a smalll square.

Factual Questions
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I went to a stupid hacking site by accident looking for a driver. Now every time I open a new window it opens as a little 2" by 2" square in the middle of the screen that I have to maximize myself. Also it sometimes opens an ad about the same size on the other side of my screen.

It’s driving me crazy. Any advice?

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I’ll assume when you say “opening a new window,” you mean a browser window and not any program’s window.

Try this: Open a new window. Close all other windows so that the one you just opened is the only one you have open. Manually resize it (don’t use Maximize, actually drag the window size to something more to your liking). Close that window. See if the new size stuck by opening the browser again.

Hope this helps.

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I think you can fix this in the registry, but here’s how I do it:

  • close all existing Internet Explorer windows
  • open Internet Explorer and maximise it
  • right-click on a link and open it in a new window
  • close the original window
  • resize the remaining window to the size you want for secondary windows, and close it
  • open Internet Explorer again, maximise it and close it