Internet Explorer not remembering last window size

by Mitch Tulloch [Published on 14 July 2016 / Last Updated on 14 July 2016]

A tip about how to get Internet Explorer to remember its last window size.

This one had been nagging me for quite a while. I'm still using Windows 7 on a workstation and one of the big annoyances I have with it is that Internet Explorer won't remember its last window size. For example, I open IE, manually resize the window to the size I want it to be, close IE, reopen IE, and it doesn't remember how I sized it. This can get frustrating if for some reason I starts opening with a very small window size as it means every time I launch the program I have to resize the window, argh...

I searched the help forums on this issue, but none of the suggestions they offered seem to work. Then this morning while writing this newsletter I found a way to make Internet Explorer remember how I resize its window. Here's what I did:

  1. First, I have IE pinned to the taskbar so I can launch it quickly.
  2. Next, I closed all IE windows that were open.
  3. Then I held down both the CTRL and SHIFT keys and clicked the IE icon on my taskbar.
  4. IE opened, and I resized the window the way I wanted by dragging the title bar and corners of the window.
  5. I closed IE and then opened it again by clicking the IE icon on the taskbar.
  6. Presto! IE remembered the way I resized it.
  7. I then resized the window differently, closed IE and reopened it.
  8. Wow, it remembered the NEW size this time!

In other words, it seems that closing all IE windows and then holding down both CTRL and SHIFT while clicking the IE icon the taskbar somehow "reset" IE so that it can now remember the last way I resize its window.

The above tip was previously published in an issue of WServerNews, a weekly newsletter from TechGenix that focuses on the administration, management and security of the Windows Server platform in particular and cloud solutions in general. Subscribe to WServerNews today by going to http://www.wservernews.com/subscribe.htm and join almost 100,000 other IT professionals around the world who read our newsletter!

Mitch Tulloch is an eleven-time recipient of the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award and a widely recognized expert on Windows Server and cloud computing technologies.  Mitch is also Senior Editor of WServerNews. For more information about him see http://www.mtit.com.

 

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Mitch Tulloch is a well-known expert on Windows Server administration and cloud computing technologies. He has published over a thousand articles on information technology topics and has written, contributed to or been series editor for over 50 books.

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