Itty Bitty Windows

Try resizing the small window to what ever size you want to use, then close the browser window and reopen. It should reopen at the same size it closed as.

bills342, Follow the instructions below exactly and your problem should be solved.
Right click the shortcut icon for IE next to the Start button, choose Properties, change it from 'normal' to 'maximized'. Now open it.
Now right click any link on the page, choose Open In New Window....don't maximize it....instead, use the mouse to resize it to what you want it to be.
Now close the FIRST window you opened, and then close the new one you just resized.

Reopen IE from the shortcut icon again, and all windows from now on will be the size you chose and created.

Tufenuf

<span id="INSERTION_MARKER">by Tufenuf - 11/5/04 2:55 PMIn Reply to: Re: Itty Bitty Windows by bills342bills342, Follow the instructions below exactly and your problem should be solved.Right click the shortcut icon for IE next to the Start button, choose Properties, change it from 'normal' to 'maximized'. Now open it. Now right click any link on the page, choose Open In New Window....don't maximize it....instead, use the mouse to resize it to what you want it to be. Now close the FIRST window you opened, and then close the new one you just resized. Reopen IE from the shortcut icon again, and all windows from now on will be the size you chose and created.TufenufThis ALWAYS works! I have always used this method, but it happens so infrequently that I don't have to use it that often. Pay VERY close attention. It is IMPERATIVE that after you launch the second window, that you CLOSE the parent (first window from which you launched the shortcut) BEFORE you close the NEW Window. If you close the new window first, it will NOT work, no matter how many times you try! Do it PRECISELY as Tufenuf says, and SAVE THIS THREAD TO YOUR FAVORITES, BECAUSE IT WILL HAPPEN AGAIN. It is not a matter of IF, but a matter of WHEN!<span>

<span>I am a high level computer expert who builds everything from entry level machines to high end servers (mine is a dual processor machine - each Intel XEON x5650 processor has a nominal clock speed of 2.66 GHz, but twith Intel Turbo Boost, the processor usually automatically over-clocks itself safely to 3.06 GHZ (I do not manually over-clock). EACH processor has 6 cores with hyper-threading, for a total of twelve threads per processor, and I have two. In total, I have two physical processors, 12 physical cores, and 24 threads. Each core has 256 Kb L2 Cache (1.5 MB per processor, 3 MB total), and 12 MB shared smart cache per processor, for a total of 24 MB L3 cache. I have 48 GB of DDR3 1333 fully-buffered ECC memory. I run Windows Server 2008 R2 SP2 x64, Enterprise Edition.
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<span>It is all in a Supermicro chassis with Supermicro motherboard which supports up to 196 GB of memory. I have A LSI 9260-4i MEGARAID SAS controller with 512 MB of disk cache (a whole lot more than the 8-64 MB seen on most modern hard drives), in addition to the cache on each of my four 300 MB Seagate Cheetah 15,000 RPM 15K.7 SAS (serial attached SCSI) hard drives (nly 16 Mb cache, but with a 15,000 RPM spindle speed, SAS 6Gb/S interface, an average latency of 2.0 milliseconds, it is pretty fast, and does not require 32 or 64 MB of cache - after all, and in addition, remember my LSI controller card has 512 MB of DDR2 cache, so it is pretty snappy, and is in a RAID-5 configuration for data redundancy. This slows writes down a little, but seeing as how it is interleaved, it is reading data at a combined spindle speed of 60,000 RPM! The sustained read and sequential read speeds are over 675 MB/s, and peak speeds are over 1 Gbps! No worries about sectors wearing out, garbage collection, etc. My system will take on just about any home computer out there, and I aint scared of I also have a battery-backup directly on the LSI controller card, so if power is lost, the data waiting to be written to disk will not be lost - as a matter of a fact, the server can be without power for up to 72 hours, without losing data. This is of course in addition to the 1500 VA battery-backup. I also have a micro-processor controlled 875 watt generator to take over if the power in the UPS gives out. It will keep power for about 15 minutes to the system on battery, so if the power is not restored after about 7 minutes, I crank up the generator, let it warm up a couple minutes, then switch the power from grid power (the electric company - wall sockets), and plug it into my generator. I also have another backup backup generator, as well as backup servers in the event that I have to take my main server offline. The chassis is 4u (like a regular computer case - in fact I chose a workstation system because it had one large QUIET fan in the rear, instead of two smaller, much louder fans.
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<span>Afterall, spending 6.5K on my entire system wen you throw in the Thrustmaster wheel with pedals (I am a Huge 1 fan, and love to play Codemasters F1 2010 - I may upgrade, but I am doing so well in the points). I also have a Bose Comanion 3, Series 2 audio system, which I got a great deal on at Sam's Club. I know common sense dictates that a server should be in a colo, and you should not use it as a personal computer, but having spent over $5,000 on the machine itself (not including the accessories), I wanted to have a play toy too. When I press a button, I want it to go NOW, not a second or two later. I host websites, and have had no problems whatsoever because I am VERY careful what I do with my machine. About the fans, I have 10 total. Between the back-plane and the motherboard section, it came with 2 fans, but I added 2 more, for a total of 4 to keep the hard-drives cool, and bring in air for the machine. Each of the XEON x5650 processors has a relatively large heatsink with copper heatpipes and a fan. The 875 watt power supply which came with the chassis has 2 fans, and finally there is a 92 mm exhaust fan on the rear of the machine.
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<span>I forgot to mention that I have a 5670 IceQ graphics card, with 1 GB of ddr5 memory, as I simply could not live with the 8 MB of video memory that came with the server board. I chose the 5670 for two reasons. First, it was the most powerful video card which does not require the six pin power connector (and there has not been much in upgrades since - as a matter of a fact, the replacement 6670 negates the extra bandwidth, because it went from ddr5 back down to ddr3 - a loser in my book), and those cards generate a LOT more heat than those that just plug into the PCI express lane by itself. Second, and equally important, the IceQ cards are dual lane, and vent the exhaust directly out the rear of the server, instead of releasing it into the case, which most cards do. Heat is the enemy of any computer, but especially a server.
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<span>OK I am not trying to brag - well I did a little, but I wanted to point out that I have a very high level of experience, yet I do run into the issue at hand - windows re-sizing themselves to a small size. I will add this to my favorites. I have between 9,500 and 10,000 favorites on my server, in just ONE folder in my IE favorites, named computer. Yep, I have almost 10,000 favorites that have nothing besides computer issues in them, with a few hundred sub-folders. The whole point was to say that I am not only going to add this to my favorites, but I will put the info from this fix into a text file and name it "How to Re-size IE Favorites". Now I can look in favorites, OR pull it up in the text file. I have no surprisingly, a folder on my desktop named "Text Files". Being text files they will be indexed by Windows (including their text), and also my favorite and most-used search application - Everything.
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<span>Everything is the best free index program, maybe even better than paid versions! You can get it from Download.com for free. Another good example is that on this XP Pro x64 Edition machine, everything is using 0% CPU, and under 18 MB of memory. In contrast, Windows Search has completed it's indexing on this machine, so isn't really using any CPU to speak of at the time, but it is using almost 64 MB of memory, which is over 3.5 times the memory. Windows Search has used 3 times the CPU Time. Everything is awesome. Lets do a test with Windows Search, understanding that Everything has done all it is going to do.
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<span>Now I am re-building the standard, small index on this computer. It immediately jumped to using 165 MB, up from 64. Window Search uses 10 times the resources of Everything to rebuild the index, and this is just adding it up from Task Manager as I go. It is actually more, but I don't want to re add it a million times. If you know the name of your file, or any part of it, Everything is the way to go! I use Everything about 25X more often than Windows Search. It is no problem on a machine with 48 GB of memory, but when you are on a 4 core (without hyper-threading) i750 processor and only 4 GB of memory, it does make quite a difference. Windows Search (and it's components) has used about 2 minutes of CPU time so far, as opposed to 14 seconds for Everything. Obviously, it will go up considerably. Keep in mind that only indexing "Documents and Settings," and Internet Explorer History", EXCLUDING Application Data and Default User.As soon as you install it, it will have every file in your computer indexed within a minute if you have an ancient machine, but it indexes all files within 5 seconds or less on an average machine after you install it., but usually just a few milliseconds.

I love many free programs, but Everything is probably my favorite freeware program - at least in the top five. I install it on EVERY machine that I come into contact with. I believe it uses the MFT to get files. Unlike Windows "lazy" indexing, if you save a file, it will show up immediately when you type the name of the file in Everything.Anyway, it has a bunch of nice things that you can customize, but it is very basic and easy to use. The only thing it does not do that Windows Search or other resource-intensive aftermarket programs is that it does not do full-body text searches, meaning it only returns results for the file names, NOT the contents of the files, but you are handsomely paid off in spades, because it is fully-indexed and ready to use literally seconds after being installed!!!

Just so you know, Everything has indexed 145,711 files on this very lightly used computer I am on now, BUT Windows Search indexing is complete after the rebuild, and only has 32,455 items. The download size for Windows Search is 5,392 KB (about 5.25 MB). The download size for Everything is 334 KB (.33 MB). The download for Windows Search is over 16 times larger, uses over 8.5 times the CPU time, and 10 times the memory, especially when building the index. Also, remember that Everything indexed well, everything. Eveything found more files than Windows listed. I clicked on the "C" drive, then selected all, and right clicked, and selected "Properties". Windows listed 130,214 files, 15,497 less files than Everything found, and Windows Search listed 32,455 files, which is 113,256 files less than Everything found. It makes you wonder what Microsoft is trying to hide from us!

Anyway, now let's take a look at the size of the databases, not just the install files. Windows Search with it's small selection of indexed files uses 787,434 KB (768 MB) of disk space. Contrast that with Everything. By default, there is no database location, and is set to empty, which makes it an executable folder. Just to see, I made a physical location, and the physical folder only takes up 784 KB (.77 MB). The database file for Windows Search is 1,004 times larger than that of Everything! You decide for yourself. Let me say that I am a huge Microsoft fan, BUT decide which is more important to you: knowing the file name or part of it, or needing to search the contents of the files. Personally I use both, but if you are on a machine with very little disk space, not enough memory, or one which uses a lot of CPU resources, I would chose Everything over Windows Search. Like I said, I like them both, but now you know the difference. I will say this: I would never, ever, under any circumstances have ANY computer that I use more than once that I do not install Everything. They even have a portable version that is only 272 KB (.27 MB). That is 2,895 times smaller (not including Windows Search installation File)!

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<div>I did this all on my own, and I did not mean to get off subject. Get Everything, no matter what. Use Windows Search if you have the resources. I recommend and use both. Each has it's own strengths and weaknesses, the main being that the Microsoft program takes up 3/4 of a gigabyte of space, BUT indexes the text of files, wheres Everything only takes up about 1/4 of a megabyte of space and is not a resource hog, and it will find any file that you knw the name of, or partial name. If you bring up the program, it actually lists every file, starting at the bottom. You could painstakingly go through every file, but as you type letters in, i narrows the field. Do exactly what

Tufenuf says in his post, and get everything! Don't forget to bookmark this page, and you might want to copy the instrctions like I said, and save it to your PC, because you WILL run into this problem again, and if you name your file wisely, Everything will find it in a millisecond!</div>