Everytime i open Internet Explorer, it opens it minimized, not to the point of being in the taskbar, just smaller. Isn't there a way to make all windows open up maximized. I forget how to do this.

Internet Explorer should always re-open at the size you last opened it. So just size the window very large, then close the window.

The value is stored in the system registry, under

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
"Window_Placement"=

It's a binary field.

Well, it depends, doesn't it? For example, if you open IE with the quicklaunch button like I always do, it'll open to whatever the last window was closed at. But if a link in IE opens a new window, it'll always open to whatever non-maximized size the last window was opened at. Did that make sense?

In other words, a normal link that opens a new window won't open a maximized window, only a "restored" one (I always thought "restore" was a bad term for that function).

You can change to properties of the icon on the quick launch bar to open maximized.

has anyone figured how to make it open maximized when clicking a link that opens a new window ?

That's the one I was wondering. I already have my windows opening to max with the quicklaunch button.

This is the way I did it : I opened up a few new windows by clicking a link, I maximized them (by hand, NOT by clicking the maximize icon) then I closed them all and rebooted the PC. Don't know what that's good for, but it did the trick. Also, I had to try this twice for it to work. Why it didn't work the first time I don't know...

I have no idea why you should have had to restart! That's not quite maximizing it (and would annoy me a bit), but you shouldn't have to go through all that. Like we've said, windows usually remembers the size of the last-closed, non-maximized IE window. Sort of how it remembers how a large a particular folder opens up to.

Any ideas on why you needed to restart?