How to maximize a window WITHOUT shifting it to up


  1. mmo
    Posts : 55
    2x Windows 7
       #1

    How to maximize a window WITHOUT shifting it to up


    When I double click into a window's frame it gets blown up to its maximum size and also attached to the upper screen border. While I want the first, I don't like the second effect.

    Can one configure Win7 such, that double clicking a window's top border does ONLY maximize the window, but keeps it in-place and without shifting it to the upper screen border?

    Michael
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  2. Posts : 1,210
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 (XP, 98SE, 95, 3.11, DOS 7.10 on VM) + Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx
       #2

    Maximize -> Full Screen proportions
    How can you maximize a window and not expect it to cover the whole desktop area ?
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  3. mmo
    Posts : 55
    2x Windows 7
    Thread Starter
       #3

    gladson1976 said:
    Maximize -> Full Screen proportions
    How can you maximize a window and not expect it to cover the whole desktop area ?
    If you gave it a second of thought: there are many apps and hence windows that - even when maximized do NOT cover the entire screen, to name just one example: a remote desktop window where the other system's desktop is much smaller than my own's.

    M.
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  4. Posts : 141
    windows 8.1 pro
       #4

    i would be supprised if one can do that.
    maybe this might help i bit. "WinSplit Revolution", a free program, that allows you to reset the window according to your likings with either a keyboard shortrcut, or a small aero type of window on the screen with about 9 buttons on it, two options to install, as a program, or portable. with many options. came in very handy for me.
    here is a link http://www.winsplit-revolution.com/
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  5. mmo
    Posts : 55
    2x Windows 7
    Thread Starter
       #5

    tapuz said:
    i would be supprised if one can do that...
    What do you mean by that? That there are no windows that - even when maximized - do NOT cover the entire screen?

    An other easy to reproduce example is the Command line (aka. cli or command.exe). Open one, go to its Properties, define both, screen buffer size and window size, to be e.g. 80x24. Now maximize that window. It will NOT cover the entire screen (unless you have a *very small* screen). But when you double-click into the title bar it will jump to the top left corner of you screen. It's that jump that I want to get rid of! IMHO the window should maximize but remain at the position it was.

    M.
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  6. Posts : 1,210
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 (XP, 98SE, 95, 3.11, DOS 7.10 on VM) + Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx
       #6

    mmo said:
    tapuz said:
    i would be supprised if one can do that...
    What do you mean by that? That there are no windows that - even when maximized - do NOT cover the entire screen?

    An other easy to reproduce example is the Command line (aka. cli or command.exe). Open one, go to its Properties, define both, screen buffer size and window size, to be e.g. 80x24. Now maximize that window. It will NOT cover the entire screen (unless you have a *very small* screen). But when you double-click into the title bar it will jump to the top left corner of you screen. It's that jump that I want to get rid of! IMHO the window should maximize but remain at the position it was.

    M.
    There are a very small subset of applications that behave like that. That is by design.
    Regarding the "jumping" to the top left corner when maximized, that is also by design in Windows (and has been like that ever since you could maximize in Windows [Windows 2.0]).
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