How do I Resize a new IE window...

[brauser]

When using IE 5.5 and select a hyperlink, often a new IE window is opened. However, the new window is only 1/4 size of display and I always need to manually maximize it to view it properly. Is there a way to change IE settings so each new opened window is maximized automatically?

 

[reghakr]

brauser,

Hey, I just gathered it all together

Many solutions to choose from. I don't recommend running 3rd party apps, but if that's the only way:
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try double-clicking on the Titlebar.
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If you're running in 1024x768 screen area, type this into the browser window:
javascript:resizeTo(1024,768);

If you're running 800x600, type:
javascript:resizeTo(800,600);
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When the windows opens, drag the borders, top, right, bottom, and left to the size you want (almost filling the entire screen). DO NOT use the maximize button.

Now choose File>Close, DO NOT use the X in the top right corner. Go back to the page you just opened the new one from, choose View>Refresh and now click the link again, it should open to the size that you just closed it from.

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Reset New Browser Window Size
Sometimes Internet Explorer 5 "decides" to remember the wrong size for a new window. Whatever you do, you can't seem to get it to remember a normal size.

Backup the registry and/or export the following keys:
go to Start>Run, type regedit. Navigate to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\InternetExplorer\Main
Delete the value Window_Placement
Exit the Registry Editor

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http://www.firase.com/

AutoSizer automatically resizes any window you specify. For instance, some web browsers open up in a non-maximized window. Using AutoSizer, you can set those windows to automatically maximize every time they’re opened. It works with almost any program, including web browsers, Notepad, etc. AutoSizer stays running in the System Tray (next to the time), so it stays out of your way while it works.

http://www.firase.com/download/assetup.exe

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reghakr

 

[Guest_imported]

ok. If/when none of these tips work (as not one of them ever did for me), go to my page:

http://resiler.tripod.com/cgi-bin

I've posted registry patches for common resolutions to enforce 'essentially maximized' new windows, persistent through reboots of course, but 5.5 and 6.0 (as I tried them) actually seem to be amenable to remembering the size the new window is dragged to if that new window is closed last. Go to my site anyway, since I've also got a fairly lengthy explanation posted too, if you just want to peek 'under the hood' at what IE does with its window sizes.

Anyway, the patches work; if only I'd seen the 'delete the entire value' hint, though, before I gave up and fixed IE... would have saved me a helluva headache from staring at a real-time registry monitor and the thousands of registry accesses IE makes every time it's run *sigh*.

Bryan

p.s. If you insist on using actual programs from a 3rd party, you might try this:

http://www.lex.ch/vb/ie.htm

It's only 32K, and a few people have said it's better than AutoSizer, which annoyed me to no end because it was also maximizing my regular folders. And anything's got to be better than IE New Window Maximizer... just on the principle that a 1.9 Mb program that does little but maximize IE windows is wrong. No... it is 'advanced wrong' .