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Answer to the most annoying problem of Windows 7
This message was posted here because:
1. I couldn't find any newsgroup on Microsoft Communities for Windows 7 (which I believe is an absolute must) 2. the program mentioned at the end would also work for Vista. From day one of upgrading to Windows 7, I was faced with the unpleasant reality that Win7 doesn't remember the size and position of folders. To further torture me, for some reason unknown to me, it began to restrict some programs' windows--such as IE , Outlook, Chrome, and a few other--to a fixed size and position, not allowing any change no matter how many times I resized, repositioned and restarted them. I even went as far as deleting the "frame" entry in the registry for some programs such as Outlook, but it just made the window to open in a new smaller uncompromising size and position! After a very long time spend on searching the net and reading no-solution answers, all I was able to find a little utility called "ShellFolderFix" which through its awkward interface, solved the problem for Windows folders, but not the programs. I read comments saying that they had bad experience with some paid programs (such as Windows Manager) which allowed fixing the size and position of program windows and nobody knew of anything that worked. Tired of spending more hours than a fulltime job on the issue, I was about to give up when on my very last try I stumbled upon a fantastic *little* freeware developed by someone in Japan which not only allows for fixing the size and position of folders as well as *program* windows, but it also has many other features which I hadn't even heard before. Furthermore, it's only 60 kb, doesn't require installation (just run the file), and it allows for selective fixing of the size and position of the program Windows, and it also works on XP, Vista and Windows 7! Why such a long post on my little discovery? because through my many days of searching, I came across many people with the same problem, and thought that the least I could do is to share this wonderful solution with as many people as I can and save them the time and trouble of trying things that won't work. Program's name is "Pitaschio" (no, not pistachio!) Link: http://pitaschio.ara3.net Enjoy, Brian |
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Answer to the most annoying problem of Windows 7
Please refer to the support forum for Win 7.
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/w...ult.aspx?tab=2 "Brian" wrote in message ... This message was posted here because: 1. I couldn't find any newsgroup on Microsoft Communities for Windows 7 (which I believe is an absolute must) 2. the program mentioned at the end would also work for Vista. From day one of upgrading to Windows 7, I was faced with the unpleasant reality that Win7 doesn't remember the size and position of folders. To further torture me, for some reason unknown to me, it began to restrict some programs' windows--such as IE , Outlook, Chrome, and a few other--to a fixed size and position, not allowing any change no matter how many times I resized, repositioned and restarted them. I even went as far as deleting the "frame" entry in the registry for some programs such as Outlook, but it just made the window to open in a new smaller uncompromising size and position! After a very long time spend on searching the net and reading no-solution answers, all I was able to find a little utility called "ShellFolderFix" which through its awkward interface, solved the problem for Windows folders, but not the programs. I read comments saying that they had bad experience with some paid programs (such as Windows Manager) which allowed fixing the size and position of program windows and nobody knew of anything that worked. Tired of spending more hours than a fulltime job on the issue, I was about to give up when on my very last try I stumbled upon a fantastic *little* freeware developed by someone in Japan which not only allows for fixing the size and position of folders as well as *program* windows, but it also has many other features which I hadn't even heard before. Furthermore, it's only 60 kb, doesn't require installation (just run the file), and it allows for selective fixing of the size and position of the program Windows, and it also works on XP, Vista and Windows 7! Why such a long post on my little discovery? because through my many days of searching, I came across many people with the same problem, and thought that the least I could do is to share this wonderful solution with as many people as I can and save them the time and trouble of trying things that won't work. Program's name is "Pitaschio" (no, not pistachio!) Link: http://pitaschio.ara3.net Enjoy, Brian |