How to Set a Program to Always Open Maximized

windows4 How to Set a Program to Always Open Maximized

I’ll bet this sounds familliar - you made the size of your program window slightly smaller, and now your program just insists on starting up in that same small window!

Here’s a 2 step process to force it to always open in a maximized state.

Right-click the program shortcut or the start menu item and select ‘Properties’
Under the ‘Run’ Menu – select maximized

That’s it! Your program will always open in a maximized state. Alternatively, you can of course select ‘minimized’ to have the opposite effect.

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Worked great. Thanks!

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THOMCAT

SHORTCUT'S DO NOT HAVE THAT SELECTION...

FOLLOW INSTRUCTION'S BELOW... IT'S EASY...

HOW TO,, PRESET THE SIZE OF SHORTCUT WINDOWS

RIGHT CLICK INTERNET EXPLORER,, GO TO PROPERTIES,, ON THE RUN LINE,, SET IT TO OPEN IN "NORMAL WINDOW"...

THEN OPEN IE-7 -- SET TO RESTORE DOWN,, = "THE MIDDLE OF THE THREE BOXES AT THE TOP RIGHT",, -- THEN,, USING THE MOUSE,, DRAG THE WINDOW TO THE SIZE THAT 'YOU WANT IT TO BE"...

CLOSE IE AND TRY SOME SHORTCUT'S... IT WORK'S ?? GO BACK TO IE PROPERTIE'S,, SET TO "OPEN MAXIMIZED".

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Knothole

All these "open and then close" solutions work only if you have a browser open when you click on a link. For example, if I do not have I.E. (or other)browser open, and I click on my Google tray-icon, it will open minimized, but if IE is open (maximized), and I click on it, it will open maximized. If it doesn't, the "open and then close" routine will work . . until I exit IE . . then it won't work anymore. So how do I get Google to open maximized without having to have a browser open???

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Jerry Manley

None of my shortcuts have the
Normal/Minimized/Maximized available under Properties or anywhere else..

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James Yeang

@Jeramey: Try making a shortcut to the program, if not then I guess it depends on the program on whether it can run maximized

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Jeramey

This solution works great if you are using a shortcut. My problem is that I have a program that updates files, then runs my game. My game is what I would like to run maximized. The program that preforms the updates has a place for me to enter a Additional Arguments (IE: -opengl). Is there such a command I can enter?

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