I am running Windows 7 Enterprise on several hundred computers and we have a picture viewer program written specifically for us. What is happening is sometimes the users will minimize a picture window to the taskbar and then they can't get it back to the screen without having to do several clicks and moves with the mouse. This wouldn't pose a problem for computer literate users but most barely know how to turn on the computer itself. I know by default Windows 7 remembers the last position and size for explorer windows, but is there a way to tell a program window to always run maximized? This would be easier on us and the users if this were possible. As a work around we are using Windows Photo Viewer and it works great but it won't let you print individual pictures, we are scanning mutipage documents and sometimes we need to print 2 pages out of a 100 page file, hence the reason we had a program specifically written to do this. Everything worked fine when we were running Windows XP.

Sounds like you need to contact the programmer/publisher of the program you are having problems with. Just because the program worked in Windows XP does not mean it is fully compatible with Windows 7. There were some changes in Windows 7 that affected the compatibility of a lot of programs, but I am not a programmer so I don't know anything about the details.Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

Sounds like you need to contact the programmer/publisher of the program you are having problems with. Just because the program worked in Windows XP does not mean it is fully compatible with Windows 7. There were some changes in Windows 7 that affected the compatibility of a lot of programs, but I am not a programmer so I don't know anything about the details. Please remember to click “Mark as Answer” on the post that helps you, and to click “Unmark as Answer” if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread. ” There isn't anything wrong with the program itself it is continually doing exactly what we want it to, its just sometimes when users minimize the viewer they have to hover the mouse over the icon on the taskbar then click on the window to activate it and all it shows is a small title bar. Then they can maximize the window from there. I need to know how to always open this window maximized, regardless if its Solitaire, Excel or this Picture Viewer program.

If the program behaves exactly as you expect it to on Windows XP, but does not behave exactly as you expect it to on Windows 7, logical thinking would lead me to believe there is some small piece of the program that has a compatibility problem with Windows 7 preventing it from behaving as you want. Working fine on Windows XP is not an indication, nor a guarantee, it will work fine on Windows 7! However, maybe we should not confuse the situation with logic!Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

Sounds like you need to contact the programmer/publisher of the program you are having problems with. Just because the program worked in Windows XP does not mean it is fully compatible with Windows 7. There were some changes in Windows 7 that affected the compatibility of a lot of programs, but I am not a programmer so I don't know anything about the details. Please remember to click “Mark as Answer” on the post that helps you, and to click “Unmark as Answer” if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread. ” There isn't anything wrong with the program itself it is continually doing exactly what we want it to, its just sometimes when users minimize the viewer they have to hover the mouse over the icon on the taskbar then click on the window to activate it and all it shows is a small title bar. Then they can maximize the window from there. I need to know how to always open this window maximized, regardless if its Solitaire, Excel or this Picture Viewer program. if program was working fine, even then it might work incorrectly on windows 7 or any other version if programmer has missed anything. does this behavior exist on any other software apart from your custom software or it is only for your custom software? you can find many utilities to do the job, e. g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0fscTeijVk

If the program behaves exactly as you expect it to on Windows XP, but does not behave exactly as you expect it to on Windows 7, logical thinking would lead me to believe there is some small piece of the program that has a compatibility problem with Windows 7 preventing it from behaving as you want. Working fine on Windows XP is not an indication, nor a guarantee, it will work fine on Windows 7! However, maybe we should not confuse the situation with logic! Please remember to click “Mark as Answer” on the post that helps you, and to click “Unmark as Answer” if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread. ” Ok forget I even mentioned XP, the problem is Windows 7 is remembering the program window size and location when a user minimizes it to the task bar. I want it to always open in a maximized window, and not have to worry about Windows 7 remembering the window size.

No, don't forget you mentioned XP. That is an important fact that you need to realize. The program was written to interface with Windows XP. Now you are running it on Windows 7 and it does not behave as it did on XP. This is may well be because there were a lot of underlying program interface changes in Windows 7 that made a lot of program not compatible with Windows 7. There are even programs written for Vista that are not compatible with Windows 7. That is exactly why the programmer, or publisher, needs to take a look at the program so he/she can figure out what is going on!Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

Right click on the porgram shortcut and select properties. The next to run, in the pull down meu, select maximized.

I thought about that, but I don't have a shortcut to the program. This program automatically launches when you select a file to view. Here is a rundown of what the program does and what we are dealing with: We scan multiple pages and save them as 1 file as a document number into a program we use. Users can then open a secondary search program to find these files based on account numbers. When they find the correct account number from the search they click the document number and it automatically opens this view program and they are able to see the mulitpage scans and print all the pages or a select number of the pages. Its just like opening a picture on your hard drive, I don't have to open Photo Viewer first to see the picture, I just double click on the picture itself and it automatically opens the file. The documents we are scanning are opening as a .TIFF file, but Windows Photo Viewer will not allow the users to print one page from the file, they have to print all the pages and that could be anywhere from 2 to 135.

I understand what you are saying but my initial question still has been avoided. How do I make it where a program window always opens maximized.

Instead of hovering over the icon on task bar, just click it. It returns to the size it was before being minimized. Alt + Tab gives you aero peek Hold ALT and tap Tab when multiple Windows are open. Stop on the one you want to work with. Resizing the window manually before minimizing sets the working size that it will "remember" Do this in the maximized state. Drag the window to the top left with top bar. Then click and drag the low right corner.

This only happens when the users minimize the program window and then close it. After that they have to hover over the icon on the taskbar then right click the image that comes up and right click on it, then click maximize. Then they have to grab the title bar and drag it down; when it comes out of the maximized state it is just a window that is completely collapsed and only wide enough to read the title bar and have the 3 buttons for minimize, restore and maximize. You can then only resize the window, but if you click restore it shrinks it back down to the taskbar and you can't see anything and you have to repeat this whole process.

I have opened multiple applications, minimized the window, right-click the task bar icon and select close window. Upon launch of the application again, the window is the size it was the first time. Instruct the users not close the application or window when it is minimized. Contact the vendor of the application as this behavior is not typical.

I will work on doing that. In the meantime my question still stands, is there a way to tell a program to always open in a maximized window regardless what size the window was when closed if the program doesn't have a shortcut? I.E. if I double click on a document on my desktop it opens up in notepad. I don't have to browse out and find the notepad.exe program and open it up then open the file. I want Windows 7 to always open a .txt file in a maximized window, even if I snapped it to half screen width while viewing another program window and was closed this way. In a nutshell again I don't wan't Windows 7 to remember window size and position on programs and to always open them maximized.

Try this; Click Start=>find the list for application that you launch-is it pinned in the start menu? listed in all programs? on a desktop shortcut? Find one and right click it and select properties for the shortcut Review the shortcut tab for a drop down menu next to Run and select maximized for the window Ok and close Test it.

Generally if you open a window and make it maximized, then close the window, the next time when the window launches it will be maximized. This behavior also occurs on other applications which are compatible with Windows 7. However there are some exceptions. Notepad is one of hte exceptions. In this case we are not able to change the default size of it to be maximized.Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.