right click on an item say internet explorer>choose properties>go to run, click the down arrow>choose maximize. Nearly all are configured this way.
Vista Home Premiem came installed on my new Dell laptop last month, and I've been trying to shorten my learning curve since. I really don't have any serious *******, but there are two issues that remain irritations from past MS operating systems. For my own edification, I'd love some insight on what MS is possibly thinking by not including some setting on the Vista desktop to "lock" the icons in place, instead of having them rearrange themselves each restart? I spent a lot of time researching this failure, and have now determined that there are many third party software utilities to do this, but why wouldn't MS include a setting to do it? Dumb!
The other irritation has also been around for as many past editions of Windows as I can remember, and also could easily have been solved with a simple setting - but no, again one has to seek a third party utility. I refer to the Windows failure to include a window maximizer in its settings. Certainly, MS has known how its users felt about this omission for some time, why then did they not provide a simple setting change to maximize windows as they open?
These are mysteries to me, especially considering all the useless new features each reincarnation of Windows includes! What am I missing here?

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