resizing window

I want to be able to resize my Internet Explorer 6 window when it has the two small boxes one on top of the other at the top right of my screen. Right now when I click on the maximize button it switches to the two small boxes but the window remains maximized. It used to be reduced to a smaller screen. I have clicked Internet Options and then I clicked the Advanced tab and then I clicked the Restore Defaults button and rebooted my computer and nothing changed. I use Windows XP Home edition. Any Ideas? Thanks in advance!

 

With the window in the minimized position move your cursor to the lower right corner until you see the cursor change. Left click your mouse and drag the window to the size you want. Hold the Ctrl key down and click on the X with your mouse to close the window. It should now open to the size you want.

 

resizing window 2

I tried what you told me to do and nothing happened. Also I tried Autosizer and it didn't help. Any other ideas? Thanks!

 

When you see two boxes the window is maximized. Click on it so you only see one box and then try resizing the window. You can use a corner or put your cursor on one of the sides, click (hold the mouse button down) and drag it smaller. Then put your cursor at the top or bottom of the window and click and drag it smaller until you have it the size you want it. Close the window and it should stick as long as you don't have any other IE windows open. If you have any other windows open, close them before resizing it.

 

resizing window 3

Thanks Zander! Let me be clear. When I have the restore button on the top right of the toolbar my window is MAXIMIZED. It should not be. It should be smaller. When I place the cursor at the corners or edges of the window It does not change into a little black arrow. Do you know of a fix other than the ones posted? Thanks again.

 

If you want the original IE window to open Maximized (with the double boxes showing), right click on the shortcut you use to open IE, left click Properties. In the "Run" field, choose "Maximized" in the drop-down list, click OK. This will not work with the default IE icon Windows places on the desktop since the Properties of that shortcut just opens the Internet Options window. It will work on a Quick Launch IE icon, the one on the Start Menu or one you make yourself.

If you want secondary IE windows to open less than full size:
1. Open Internet Explorer to a page with links
2. Right click on a link, left click "Open in new window "
3. With the single box showing in the middle button, drag the sides and corners of the window to a smaller size.
4. Close the original window first. This is an important step and if you do not close the original window first, this will not work.
5. Close the window you resized.

All future secondary windows will open to the size and placement of the window you closed in Step 5.

 

resizing restore window

Thanks Miz! I tried what you instructed and it only resized my Maximized window not the Restore window. Any other suggestions? Thanks again.

 

When you open a link in a new window, check to make sure the middle button of that new window (between the minus sign (-) and the X) shows the two small boxes. That means that button has reduced the window size as far as it's going to unless you manipulate the sides and corners.

If it shows the single box (unlikely but possible), click on it to get the two small boxes.

Then resize it by dragging the sides and corners until it's the size you want.

If that's exactly what you did, including closing the original IE window first, before closing the window you resized, then I don't know what the problem is. That fix has worked for everybody who has tried it...except when they forget to close the original window first, that is.

 

I can't help but think there's some type of misunderstanding going on here. A maximized window is just that. If it's maximized it's at it's largest size. When it's maximized there is no resizing to it. It's as large as it can get. The "restore" window is the only one you can resize. In the quote above you say it only resized the maximized window but you can't resize a maximized window so I'm confused. Any chance you can explain this a bit more?

 

Hi Zander. Thanks for asking. I will try to be clear. I used the cursor to resize my 'restore' window. This was an accident. I maximized it and now I cannot get it to be smaller. I want it, the 'restore' window, to be smaller. I've tried to use the cursor but when I move the cursor to the corners and edges of the 'restore'window I do not get the little black arrow to resize it and so I cannot resize it using the cursor. I have tried a System Restore, Autosizer, and all the suggestions posted on this page and nothing works. Any ideas? Thanks again.

 

Have you tried clicking the Maximize button and then seeing if you can get the double-headed arrow on the sides and corners? I know I have a couple of programs that I've done what you describe and clicking the Maximize button doesn't change the size of the window but it then acts like it's been reduced...and you can then resize it.

 

resizing restore window

Hi Miz. Yes I've tried that and no luck. Thanks for helping!

 

Are you by any chance stuck in full screen mode instead of it being maximized? Try pressing f11 and see what happens. If you aren't in full screen mode and it goes to full screen when you press f11, press it again to get out of it.

 

resizing restore window

Thanks Zander. I tried it and no luck.

 

albert1013--I have been following this thread and am somewhat mystified. Everything Miz and Zander have suggested should work.
If you see the double square at the top right of an IE window, the window is Maximized and cannot be moved by dragging the Title Bar or resized by dragging edges.
So, to change its size, you have to be working with a window where you see the single square.
When you right click on the - box on a window with a single square, you may or not be offered Restore. But you should be able to drag the edges to whatever size you want. And IE should open in that size the next time you open IE.
Is the window with which you are having the problem the result of clicking on a link in another window and then Open in a New Window? Or the result of just opening IE?
If you right click|Properties on whatever shortcut you use to open IE, are you offered the option in the Run line to chose Normal? If so do that and try the suggestions already offered. If not, find your iexplore.exe file, right click on it and create a shortcut on the Desktop. Then right click|Properties on that shortcut icon, chose Normal on the Run line and then try the suggestions.
If this does not help, perhaps you need to repair IE. Start|Run
type sfc /scannow|OK. Have your WinXP CD available. You may be asked to use it.

 

I Am A Fool!!!

YES WELSHJIM! You are correct. My apoligies to everyone. Sorry to waste everyone's time. Thanks for your patience, everyone!!!

 

albert1013--Thanks for posting back with the good news. Few questions or problems posted here make the poster look foolish. And that certainly was not the case in your thread.
If you have a chance, tell us what the solution was. I did offer quite a few. (Just my nature to complicate things.)

 

resizing windows

Hi Welshjim! The solution was I was stupid not to understand that the 'Restore' window had the Maximized box not the two little boxes. I had the answer with the first post. How humiliating. So thanks again!