IE7 Favorites suddenly open other than maximized

Without action on my part, my favorites in IE7 now open in a default window
size and not maximized as they did previously. Why? What do I have to do to
get them to open maximized when they are selected from the Favorites menu in
XP Pro?

My OS is XP Pro fully patched.
--
Rod

Hi,
Try this procedure...
Open a webpage. Stretch it out to fullsize. Don't use maximize.
Choose any link on that webpage and right-click> open in a new window.
Stretch that second window out to the desired size- don't use maximize.
Close the first IE window. Then close that second resized window.

To always get a true maximized window...
AutoSizer 1.4- http://www.southbaypc.com/AutoSizer/
IE New Window Maximizer http://www.jiisoft.com/iemaximizer/index.htm

Additional information at:
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/ietips.htm >>> Opening
Internet Explorer Full Size
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/IEFAQ.htm >>> Tip #6

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]

"Rod" <Rod@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3D61CDB8-E63E-4813-881C-455FABBEBF1B@microsoft.com...
> Without action on my part, my favorites in IE7 now open in a default
window
> size and not maximized as they did previously. Why? What do I have to do
to
> get them to open maximized when they are selected from the Favorites menu
in
> XP Pro?
>
> My OS is XP Pro fully patched.
> -
> Rod

Don,

I really appreciate the links but the basic question of why this happened in
the first place is not addressed. I've changed no settings. My favorites have
ALWAYS opened maximized and now they are not. I assume that Microsoft
'improved' something in the latest patches and nobody knows how to put things
back they way they were without undue effort and/or additional expense.

I do, however, appreciate your input.
--
Rod


"Don Varnau" wrote:

> Hi,
> Try this procedure...
> Open a webpage. Stretch it out to fullsize. Don't use maximize.
> Choose any link on that webpage and right-click> open in a new window.
> Stretch that second window out to the desired size- don't use maximize.
> Close the first IE window. Then close that second resized window.
>
> To always get a true maximized window...
> AutoSizer 1.4- http://www.southbaypc.com/AutoSizer/
> IE New Window Maximizer http://www.jiisoft.com/iemaximizer/index.htm
>
> Additional information at:
> http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/ietips.htm >>> Opening
> Internet Explorer Full Size
> http://windowsxp.mvps.org/IEFAQ.htm >>> Tip #6
>
> Hope this helps,
> Don
> [MS MVP- IE]
>
> "Rod" <Rod@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:3D61CDB8-E63E-4813-881C-455FABBEBF1B@microsoft.com...
> > Without action on my part, my favorites in IE7 now open in a default
> window
> > size and not maximized as they did previously. Why? What do I have to do
> to
> > get them to open maximized when they are selected from the Favorites menu
> in
> > XP Pro?
> >
> > My OS is XP Pro fully patched.
> > -
> > Rod
>
>

Hi,
This generally happens when a window which was not full-sized was the last
window to be closed. IE remembered that size. It's very easy to correct. IE
has never been good an "remembering" to open every window maximized.

Don
[MS MVP- IE]

"Rod" <Rod@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:48082427-8F3C-46C7-9BA1-3EC47173E6AC@microsoft.com...
> Don,
>
> I really appreciate the links but the basic question of why this happened
in
> the first place is not addressed. I've changed no settings. My favorites
have
> ALWAYS opened maximized and now they are not. I assume that Microsoft
> 'improved' something in the latest patches and nobody knows how to put
things
> back they way they were without undue effort and/or additional expense.
>
> I do, however, appreciate your input.
> -
> Rod

> "Don Varnau" wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > Try this procedure...
> > Open a webpage. Stretch it out to fullsize. Don't use maximize.
> > Choose any link on that webpage and right-click> open in a new window.
> > Stretch that second window out to the desired size- don't use maximize.
> > Close the first IE window. Then close that second resized window.
> >
> > To always get a true maximized window...
> > AutoSizer 1.4- http://www.southbaypc.com/AutoSizer/
> > IE New Window Maximizer http://www.jiisoft.com/iemaximizer/index.htm
> >
> > Additional information at:
> > http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/ietips.htm >>> Opening
> > Internet Explorer Full Size
> > http://windowsxp.mvps.org/IEFAQ.htm >>> Tip #6
> >

> > "Rod" <Rod@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:3D61CDB8-E63E-4813-881C-455FABBEBF1B@microsoft.com...
> > > Without action on my part, my favorites in IE7 now open in a default
> > window
> > > size and not maximized as they did previously. Why? What do I have to
do
> > to
> > > get them to open maximized when they are selected from the Favorites
menu
> > in
> > > XP Pro?
> > >
> > > My OS is XP Pro fully patched.
> > > -
> > > Rod