Solved How do I start Task Manager (and other apps) always maximized?

[Sereby]

I just reinstalled Win7 a couple of days ago, and I'm working on reinstalling all of my software, getting system settings back to what I prefer, etc.

On my previous Win7 installation, Task Manager would always start maximized when I invoked it using CTRL+SHIFT+ESC (that's the key combo I've always used). I'm not sure if the maximized window is something that I forced through a registry setting, or if Windows just "remembered" the last state of the app.

My question is: Is there a way to start (some) apps so that they're always maximized? I'm familiar with how to accomplish this using a shortcut, but I can't find a method for executables (.exe files, rather than .lnk files).

 

[samuria]

In most cases if you open an app make it full screen then close it then it will come back full screen

 

[Sereby]

That's actually my problem, and I apologize for not being more explicit. Here's an example of what happens:

1) Start Task Manager with CTRL+SHIFT+ESC
2) Task Manager starts; I maximize the window
3) Do whatever I need to in TM, then close it while it's maximized
4) Start Task Manager again; the window is no longer maximized - now it's at some default size

 

[samuria]

It seems lots are having the problem some work aroundshttps://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/53v9rz/windows_10_task_manager_not_opening_in_full/

 

[Sereby]

Additional research on my part didn't yield anything new. So, thanks for the link - the first suggestion in the thread was the one I went with: stretch the task manager window to the size I want it (almost maximized), and it'll continue to open at that size.

Thanks for your help!!

 

[Ata]

For all people who are still struggling with this mess!
I finally found a solution to ALWAYS open ALL windows file explorer windows maximized:

• Create a shortcut of your explorer.exe file located in your windows folder C:\Windows\explorer.exe
• Drag&Drop the shortcut to your taskbar
• In the target line, at the end add the following " --start-maximized" without ""
• Additionally i set the "Run" option to maximized

After this I consistently got the best result. No matter what window size explorer was at any time, including multiple windows not maximized and with different window sizes, all windows always opened maximized!

I had one issue though:
As a starting folder explorer always opened the My Documents folder. With editing the explorer run line to this

• %SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /e,::{20d04fe0-3aea-1069-a2d8-08002b30309d} --start-maximized

i solved the problem. I could not find out why though.

I HOPE THIS HELPS YOU !!!