Maximizing web page size from desktop - PLEASE HELP!

[toni]

I have web pages that I visit often saved as shortcuts on
my desktop. When I used to click on the icon, the full
web page would open up, but today it's been opening only a
very tiny window and I have to click maximum to get it to
open up all the way. How can I change the default setting
back to maximum??

Could you also e-mail the answer to me at:

[email]tonimcarthur@jam.rr.com[/email]

Thank you.

[Rob Schneider]

toni wrote:

> I have web pages that I visit often saved as shortcuts on
> my desktop. When I used to click on the icon, the full
> web page would open up, but today it's been opening only a
> very tiny window and I have to click maximum to get it to
> open up all the way. How can I change the default setting
> back to maximum??
>
> Could you also e-mail the answer to me at:
>
> [email]tonimcarthur@jam.rr.com[/email]
>
> Thank you.

What is small? The Interenet Explorer Window, or the web page inside
Internet Explorer?

What changed from "yesterday" when it worked, to today?

[Malvern]

"toni" <tonimcarthur@jam.rr.com> wrote in message
news:04a801c34f51$bbd8d1c0$a101280a@phx.gbl...

> I have web pages that I visit often saved as shortcuts on
> my desktop. When I used to click on the icon, the full
> web page would open up, but today it's been opening only a
> very tiny window and I have to click maximum to get it to
> open up all the way. How can I change the default setting
> back to maximum??
>
> Could you also e-mail the answer to me at:
>
> [email]tonimcarthur@jam.rr.com[/email]
>
> Thank you.

You have two posts on same subject but this is more specific. For
shortcuts, right-click on each of them, select Properties. Then in the
dialog box, click on the V triangle to right of "Run", then click on
"Maximized" in the drop-down list, finally Apply and OK buttons. I do this
regularly.

Malv

[Tom Porterfield]

Malvern wrote:

> "toni" <tonimcarthur@jam.rr.com> wrote in message
> news:04a801c34f51$bbd8d1c0$a101280a@phx.gbl...

>> I have web pages that I visit often saved as shortcuts on
>> my desktop.

>
> You have two posts on same subject but this is more specific. For
> shortcuts, right-click on each of them, select Properties. Then in the
> dialog box, click on the V triangle to right of "Run", then click on
> "Maximized" in the drop-down list, finally Apply and OK buttons. I do
> this regularly.

You do that with shortcuts to web pages? Interesting, on my machine
shortcuts to web pages (*.url not *.lnk files) do not have the run item
with a Maximized selection available.
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[Maureen Goldman]

>> "toni" <tonimcarthur@jam.rr.com> wrote in message

>>> I have web pages that I visit often saved as shortcuts on
>>> my desktop.

>> Malvern
>> You have two posts on same subject but this is more specific. For
>> shortcuts, right-click on each of them, select Properties. Then in the
>> dialog box, click on the V triangle to right of "Run", then click on
>> "Maximized" in the drop-down list, finally Apply and OK buttons. I do
>> this regularly.

> >"Tom Porterfield" <tpporter@mvps.org> wrote:

>You do that with shortcuts to web pages? Interesting, on my machine
>shortcuts to web pages (*.url not *.lnk files) do not have the run item
>with a Maximized selection available.

You can make a desktop shortcut with a target line that reads
(example):
"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE" [url]www.tvguide.ca[/url]
Then you have access to the Run ... maximized area.