MS Update - reduced size window

XP Pro, SP3, IE7.

I was experimenting with the right-click commands in the taskbar,
Cascade Windows, Tile Windows Horizontally etc.
One window open at the time was MS Update. I then turned tiling off.
Now, each time I open it from the Start menu (classic), it
is reduced in size as though it was a tiled window.

Checked the shortcut properties and made sure Run maximised was
selected. Then clicked Target. This took me to a DLL but couldn't select
any preferences.

Deleted DLL and shortcut.

Opened MS Update again and maximised, then dragged IE icon into Start
menu. This time when I look at shortcut properties, it just tells me
that it is a shortcut to a web link, so I may have messed up deleting
the DLL.

Have tried clicking the maximise button, opening a new window, dragging
to full size and
closing the new window first before Ctrl and closing update window,
right-clicking in the taskbar and selecting maximise but when it
reopens, it is still reduced in size

However, I notice that if IE is already open and I click the shortcut,
it opens in a max window. Puzzling.

Gave up trying to fix problem and did a system restore, all OK now.

"Smirnoff" <someone@nospam.invalid> wrote in message
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> XP Pro, SP3, IE7.
>
> I was experimenting with the right-click commands in the taskbar,
> Cascade Windows, Tile Windows Horizontally etc.
> One window open at the time was MS Update. I then turned tiling off.
> Now, each time I open it from the Start menu (classic), it
> is reduced in size as though it was a tiled window.
>
> Checked the shortcut properties and made sure Run maximised was
> selected. Then clicked Target. This took me to a DLL but couldn't
> select any preferences.
>
> Deleted DLL and shortcut.
>
> Opened MS Update again and maximised, then dragged IE icon into Start
> menu. This time when I look at shortcut properties, it just tells me
> that it is a shortcut to a web link, so I may have messed up deleting
> the DLL.
>
> Have tried clicking the maximise button, opening a new window,
> dragging to full size and
> closing the new window first before Ctrl and closing update window,
> right-clicking in the taskbar and selecting maximise but when it
> reopens, it is still reduced in size
>
> However, I notice that if IE is already open and I click the shortcut,
> it opens in a max window. Puzzling.
>
>
>
>
>