Filling the window

  • Thread starter Thread starter Guest
  • Start date Start date
G

Guest

Some sites fill only about two-thirds of the window-space (even when I expand
the window), while others completely fill it.
This didn't happen with Windows 98.
Is this normal?
 
Based on your description, it is hard to tell what is happening.
Are you referring to windows that are not fully maximized?
Are you saying that when you open a new IE window that sometimes it is
maximized and sometimes not?
IE remembers the size of the window when it was last closed. If you resize
your windows before closing them, they will open the way you want.
 
in order for your windows to remember the last size, you have to drag the
borders to the size you want, using the maximize windows button in the upper
right corner will not work, then use the File menu on your toolbar to close
the window.
 
Hi, Coggeroni.

There are at least three ways to get a window to fill the screen. They may
look the same to us humans, but WinXP sees them differently:

1. Full-screen: Press the F11 key to toggle this on or off. Note that
this hides the Taskbar and combines the Title bar with other functions to
give us maximum screen real estate.

2. Maximized: Click the box near the X in the red box in the upper right
corner. This is what we often mean when we say full screen. We can set
windows to always open Maximized by right-clicking on their icons and
clicking Properties. On the Properties screen, make sure it says to Run:
Maximized. In my experience, this works SOMETIMES, not always. :>(

3. Normal window stretched to fill the screen: Use your mouse to size and
position the window as you like. Close all OTHER windows for IE (or
whatever program you are using). Then close this custom-sized window LAST.
IE remembers the size of the last IE window closed and will use that next
time. Often, though, we forget and close a small window last - and IE
remembers THAT one, so we have to go through the sizing-and-closing exercise
again. Also, there are several different ways to start IE (click on the
desktop icon; click on a link on a web page; click on a link in an email;
and others), and we may need to set the custom size separately for each of
them.

Even after all this, though, you may find sites that won't fill your screen
because the programmer who designed that site is using a screen size
different from yours, and has dictated the size and shape of the web page.

Was your Win98 running on the same hardware as WinXP? Different monitors
and graphics cards can require adjustments separately from anything that we
can do from inside Windows. And trying to show a 4:3 picture on a 16:9
screen just might not ever look right.

If you need to post back, please tell us something about your monitor and
display hardware. Also, you didn't mention IE, so if we guessed wrong about
what you were asking about, please clarify that.

RC
 
Back
Top