Maximizing web page size from desktop - PLEASE HELP!

[toni]

I have web pages that I visit often saved as shortcuts on
my desktop. When I used to click on the icon, the full
web page would open up, but today it's been opening only a
very tiny window and I have to click maximum to get it to
open up all the way. How can I change the default setting
back to maximum??

Could you also e-mail the answer to me at:



Thank you.

[Rob Schneider]

toni wrote:

> I have web pages that I visit often saved as shortcuts on
> my desktop. When I used to click on the icon, the full
> web page would open up, but today it's been opening only a
> very tiny window and I have to click maximum to get it to
> open up all the way. How can I change the default setting
> back to maximum??
>
> Could you also e-mail the answer to me at:
>
>
>
> Thank you.

What is small? The Interenet Explorer Window, or the web page inside
Internet Explorer?

What changed from "yesterday" when it worked, to today?

[Tom Porterfield]

toni wrote:
> I have web pages that I visit often saved as shortcuts on
> my desktop. When I used to click on the icon, the full
> web page would open up, but today it's been opening only a
> very tiny window and I have to click maximum to get it to
> open up all the way. How can I change the default setting
> back to maximum??

Internet Explorer opens in the same size window as it was last closed.
Closing the window while maximized should cause it to open maximized the
next time you double click the shortcut.
--
Tom Porterfield
MS-MVP Windows XP & Smart Display
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/tp.porterfield/support

Please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup only.

[Malvern]

"toni" > wrote in message
...
> I have web pages that I visit often saved as shortcuts on
> my desktop. When I used to click on the icon, the full
> web page would open up, but today it's been opening only a
> very tiny window and I have to click maximum to get it to
> open up all the way. How can I change the default setting
> back to maximum??
>
> Could you also e-mail the answer to me at:
>
>
>
> Thank you.

You have two posts on same subject but this is more specific. For
shortcuts, right-click on each of them, select Properties. Then in the
dialog box, click on the V triangle to right of "Run", then click on
"Maximized" in the drop-down list, finally Apply and OK buttons. I do this
regularly.

Malv

[Tom Porterfield]

Malvern wrote:
> "toni" > wrote in message
> ...
>> I have web pages that I visit often saved as shortcuts on
>> my desktop.
>
> You have two posts on same subject but this is more specific. For
> shortcuts, right-click on each of them, select Properties. Then in the
> dialog box, click on the V triangle to right of "Run", then click on
> "Maximized" in the drop-down list, finally Apply and OK buttons. I do
> this regularly.

You do that with shortcuts to web pages? Interesting, on my machine
shortcuts to web pages (*.url not *.lnk files) do not have the run item
with a Maximized selection available.
--
Tom Porterfield
MS-MVP Windows XP & Smart Display
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/tp.porterfield/support

Please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup only.

[Maureen Goldman]

>> "toni" > wrote in message
>>> I have web pages that I visit often saved as shortcuts on
>>> my desktop.

>> Malvern
>> You have two posts on same subject but this is more specific. For
>> shortcuts, right-click on each of them, select Properties. Then in the
>> dialog box, click on the V triangle to right of "Run", then click on
>> "Maximized" in the drop-down list, finally Apply and OK buttons. I do
>> this regularly.

> >"Tom Porterfield" > wrote:
>You do that with shortcuts to web pages? Interesting, on my machine
>shortcuts to web pages (*.url not *.lnk files) do not have the run item
>with a Maximized selection available.

You can make a desktop shortcut with a target line that reads
(example):
"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE" www.tvguide.ca
Then you have access to the Run ... maximized area.