Vista - Opening Windows in Full Screen

I remember Kim Komando describing a trick (key combinations that I have now
forgotten) to open windows in full screen using XP. Is there such a thing in
Vista?
Thank you for your time

On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:27:28 -0700, Desert Doug
<DesertDoug@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I remember Kim Komando describing a trick (key combinations that I have now
>forgotten) to open windows in full screen using XP. Is there such a thing in
>Vista?
>Thank you for your time

Many application have a short cut tab. For example if you have a
shortcut for IE7 on your desktop right click it, then Properites. On
the short cut tab under run it probably says Normal Window. Click on
the little down pointing arrow and chage to Maxamized. Now click on
Apply, then finally click ok. Now click on the short cut again. IE7
should now open full screen every time.

There have been several "bugs" related to this feature that go back
several versions of Windows, so it doesn't always work for all
applications or sometimes Windows just forgets and revents back to old
habits. There is a similar way to resize how Windows open at by
default. Just click minimize instead of maxamize and resize by
dragging a corner of the window to the new size you want. Again
sometimes it works, other times it just don't take, sometimes it
forgets. I'm surprised they haven't made a funny Mac commerical about
this Windows misbehaving "feature".

Also Dos programs can no longer run full screen, if the Dos program uses non
standard video modes the program won't work in Vista.
"Adam Albright" <AA@ABC.net> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:27:28 -0700, Desert Doug
> <DesertDoug@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>>I remember Kim Komando describing a trick (key combinations that I have
>>now
>>forgotten) to open windows in full screen using XP. Is there such a thing
>>in
>>Vista?
>>Thank you for your time
>
> Many application have a short cut tab. For example if you have a
> shortcut for IE7 on your desktop right click it, then Properites. On
> the short cut tab under run it probably says Normal Window. Click on
> the little down pointing arrow and chage to Maxamized. Now click on
> Apply, then finally click ok. Now click on the short cut again. IE7
> should now open full screen every time.
>
> There have been several "bugs" related to this feature that go back
> several versions of Windows, so it doesn't always work for all
> applications or sometimes Windows just forgets and revents back to old
> habits. There is a similar way to resize how Windows open at by
> default. Just click minimize instead of maxamize and resize by
> dragging a corner of the window to the new size you want. Again
> sometimes it works, other times it just don't take, sometimes it
> forgets. I'm surprised they haven't made a funny Mac commerical about
> this Windows misbehaving "feature".
>