At one point in time, I clicked on a desktop icon to open a certain website

With the arrows on both sides... I pulled in the page, to be narrower... so that I could open another page... doing the same thing... in order to compare two photos side by side

Now every time I open my browser... or a web site from an icon on my desktop... the window opens narrow... maybe about one third the width of my screen

Vertically the window opens fully... but horizontally, the borders are pulled in and narrows the window's width

I can't seem to correct this

Many thanks

Chuck

Internet Explorer tends to be stupid that way. Whether using IE or another browser, try opening a single browser window, resize or maximize the window the way you want, and then close it. Reopen the browser, hopefully the last window state was remembered.

Internet Explorer tends to be stupid that way. Whether using IE or another browser, try opening a single browser window, resize or maximize the window the way you want, and then close it. Reopen the browser, hopefully the last window state was remembered.

Thanks... but it does not work... my internet explorer icon , opens fully... but any other icon for a website... does not open fully

Thanks, anyway !

Chuck

Right click on your desktop icon of IE and then go to properties and use the dropdown box next to Run: and choose to open 'Maximized'

Also when your IE window is open maximized, Hold down the CTRL and SHIFT keys at same time and use mouse to go to file and then choose Exit with both keys pressed

Hopefully these 2 will help with opening full all the time

I've tried all of the suggestions to this question. It still doesn't work. I know about F11 and full screen but I want it to be opened when I open IE. It used to and I don't know what I did that makes it be tall and narrow (vertically). I have tried stretching at corners, making full page, doing the shift/ctrl bar, everything. I've even restarted my computer so it would go back perhaps to its original state. It sort of bugs me. :mad:

Not sure if this will help but worth a try

Restore the Default Settings for Internet Explorer
HP Photosmart Printers -  Web Page Prints Out as Computer Code (HTML) in Internet Explorer 7.0  (http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&docname=c01115704)

Follow Step 1

Well, this is what I did! I deleted the short cut to IE on my desktop and created a new one and low and behold the IE opened to a full screen. I should have gone to school to be a IT person.

OMG thank you so much! I hant asked the question but have been trying to figure this out for months! :)

Thanks again!
Jean

Also if you right click on your IE shortcut and go to properties, and then go to the shortcut tab there is an option near the middle called Run:. Choose maximized in the drop down list and hit apply. Should open maximized all the time.