Controlling initial positions of newly-opened windows on the desktop

ToughDiamond

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I'm doing some work for which I want newly-opened documents and programs to always open at the same, accurately-predictable positions on the desktop, but as things stand, every time they open they come up in slightly different places. I seem to remember an option somewhere in Windows 7 that gives the user some control over this, but I can't remember what it's called or where it is. Does anybody know?
 

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No problem, that's why we're here to try to help!
Hope that work to jar the memories!

Wishing you and your the best!
 

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No problem, that's why we're here to try to help!
Hope that work to jar the memories!

Wishing you and your the best!
Thanks. It's good to see that there's still activity on this forum now that W7 is unsupported and so many people are moving on.

Hmm......is there any way of fixing the position at which an instance of (for example) Explorer will open, regardless of where it was when it was last closed? Windows itself doesn't seem to provide an easy way of setting that, but I suppose the parameters must be stored somewhere, and could be altered, at least in theory.
 

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Are you referring to Internet Explorer or File Explorer?

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Both. I just used Explorer as an example I was thinking of File Explorer but ideally I'd like to be able to fix this for any program / Windows feature, including Firefox.

Thanks for the link to the tutorial, that's about something a little different to what I'm looking for, though it does look useful in its own right. I probably didn't explain what I want very clearly. It's not the target folder that's the problem for me, it's the window size and location on the screen.

Here's a more detailed explanation of what happens that I'd like to change:

I open (for example) File Explorer and position and size it to what I want.
I close that.
Next time I open it, it has the same position and size.
That's fine, but:
If in the meantime I happen to open File Explorer and change its size or position, then the original size and position is lost and replaced by the new one when I close it.
And that's the problem. I want to know how to fix the size and position so that it stays that way whatever I do with instances of File Explorer in the meantime.

[It probably looks like a strange request. The reason I want it that way is because I'm having to use a "mouse recorder" utility to automate a process (which records and then plays back mouse clicks etc.), and in order for that to work, the window must open in a reproducible position on the screen every time, otherwise on playback the mouse will fail to click in the required place relative to the program. An alternative solution would be to instead use a DOS batch script (or something similar) that wasn't dependent on mouse and screen positions at all, but I don't know enough about programming to do that, hence the mouse recording method]
 

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