Whenever I open a new browser window, the window is
It's a common problem with XP. If you make your normal window
too big it seems to interpret that you would like it maximized.
Another way that it seems to happen is if you close the application
in maximized mode. (I'm undecided about whether closing windows
in Fullscreen mode similarly affects the normal window size.)
In any case, now that I am aware of this "feechur" I have been keeping
my normal window size significantly less than maximized and never
close a window in maximized mode (e.g. I double click the Title bar
and then close such windows. When I do want a larger normal window
I make sure that I also keep one of my "normal" normal windows so that
I can close it after closing the oversized one. All these precautions
seem to have avoided the problem I think you may be seeing.
Strange, but even 'the file download dialog box' is maximized.
I have never seen the same effect with dialog windows though;
so you may be seeing something different. What I would do in that case
is first use Cascade Windows on all the problem windows.
(Right-click the Taskbar to use that command. Minimize all windows
you don't want involved in the cascade.)
If that didn't help what we really would like to do is an IE Repair.
However, the only XP users who can do that are ones who installed
separately IE6sp1 before installing XPsp1. Here is an inferior alternative:
<excerpted from previous reply>
FWIW this is a list of commands created by extracting from fixie.inf
what an IE Repair would do for Windows 2000 users:
regsvr32 /i browseui.dll
regsvr32 /i shdocvw.dll
regsvr32 /i mshtml.dll
regsvr32 mshtmled.dll
regsvr32 actxprxy.dll
regsvr32 /i urlmon.dll
What that represents is the set of re-registrations which
FixIE.inf indicates would be done for Base.W2K.AddReg
N.B. that neither mshtmled.dll nor actxprxy.dll have an entry point
called DllInstall and hence the /i option can not be used for them.
Neither msjava.dll nor shell32.dll are referred to by FixIE.inf
but those are two other modules which are often suggested to XP users
as needing re-registration for repairing in various circumstances.
Note that such re-registrations are normally done by an IE Repair
during a boot while nothing is running so at the very least I think
that it would be best to ensure that iexplore.exe is not active in your
task list. (Close all visible IE windows and then check that the
iexplore.exe is not in the list of Processes in Task Manager.
Ctrl-Shift-Esc,Ctrl-Tab,i,i,...)
Good luck
Robert Aldwinckle
