{"id":3580,"date":"2012-01-20T13:25:05","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T18:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=3580"},"modified":"2012-01-20T13:25:05","modified_gmt":"2012-01-20T18:25:05","slug":"another-way-to-control-window-sizes-in-windows-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/another-way-to-control-window-sizes-in-windows-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Another way to control Window sizes in Windows 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the questions we are asked most often is: &#8220;How do I get my program window(s) to open full-size?&#8221; On all versions of Windows there&#8217;s the little trick of maximizing a program window and then closing it by holding down the Shift key while clicking the &#8220;X&#8221; in the top-right corner. With most programs this will force that program&#8217;s window to open full-size (maximized) the next time you open it.<\/p>\n<p>Windows 7 gives you another way to open program Windows maximized. And it&#8217;s really easy to do. Right-click on any program&#8217;s icon and choose &#8220;Properties&#8221;. In the Properties dialog, about 2\/3 of the way down, next to &#8220;Run&#8221; you&#8217;ll see a down-arrow selector. If you click the down arrow you&#8217;ll see you have three different windows sizes you can choose from:<\/p>\n<p>1. Minimized<\/p>\n<p>2. Normal window<\/p>\n<p>3. Maximized<\/p>\n<p>The default size is Normal &#8212; but you can change it to Maximized if you want that particular program to always open in a maximized window. Here&#8217;s a picture to guide you:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2012\/window-sizes.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve\" width=\"377\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Note: This dialog will only appear in &#8220;Properties&#8221; for program shortcuts. It is not available on shortcuts you&#8217;ve created to Web sites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the questions we are asked most often is: &#8220;How do I get my program window(s) to open full-size?&#8221; On all versions of Windows there&#8217;s the little trick of maximizing a program window and then closing it by holding down the Shift key while clicking the &#8220;X&#8221; in the top-right corner. With most programs this will force\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/another-way-to-control-window-sizes-in-windows-7\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1611,1613,1609,1610,1612],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3580"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3582,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3580\/revisions\/3582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}