Setting the default window size for Explorer in Vista

Ever since I switched to Vista the one thing that really annoys me is that when windows explorer is run, either via the shortcut or from the right click, it would always default to this small window which I had to keep enlarging to the size I want and after closing it would default back to that small window the next time it opened. Unlike XP which re-opened explorer as the size it was when it was last closed.

So anyway I was doing a search on the net for something completely unrelated last week and I came across a forum post (can’t seem to find it now to link to) that mentioned in passing that holding down the shift key and clicking on the close button [X] would set the size of the current window to be the default size. So I gave it a go and what do you know it works and all my explorer windows now open as that size.

Sweet

UPDATE: Please see my later post on the steps to set the default window size

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~ by ManiacD on April 26, 2007.

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12 Responses to “Setting the default window size for Explorer in Vista”

  1. it does not work

    energy said this on May 2, 2007 at 1:24 pm

  2. vista remembers the folder size when you close it anyway, without pressing any keys. there is no way to set a default window size except by opening every folder, resizing it, and closing so that next time it opens to your desired size.

    energy said this on May 2, 2007 at 1:39 pm

  3. Hello
    You are The Best!!!
    Bye

    Terabanitoss said this on May 7, 2007 at 2:02 am

  4. This drives me CRAZY. I’ve been looking around for a fix but it seems either nobody is noticing this behavior, or nobody cares? I’ve tried holding Control for closing a Window, but it doesn’t work. I can’t get it to remember Column Resizes either, which is even more annoying.

    tasslex said this on May 14, 2007 at 5:08 am

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    Steps for setting Vista’s Default Explorer Window Size « ManiacD said this on May 15, 2007 at 11:12 am

  6. i think you’re all full of it - i’ve tried this and it don’t work

    Tim said this on October 13, 2007 at 6:48 pm

  7. Tim
    It’s good to see you took the time to follow the update link at the bottom of this post

    ManiacD said this on October 14, 2007 at 11:08 am

  8. Worked for me. Been using Vista for all of a day, and this problem was going to get real annoying. Thanks for the tip!

    Gadianton said this on March 26, 2008 at 1:23 pm

  9. Worked just great for me. I’m running Vista Ultimate. I opened Windows Explorer (not Internet Explorer) using a shortcut, resized the window, held down shift key and clicked the “X” to close the window. When I reopened Windows Explorer using the shortcut, the window had the new size. Even the width of the navigation pane was preserved! THANKS!

    PA said this on April 21, 2008 at 12:23 am

  10. How to resize a fixed dialog box. Sometime the dialog box shrunk too much even ‘ok’ button disappear! I noticed, my on screen keyboard keep shrinking after shutdown. the keyboard also shrunk. bhoxs@yahoo.com

    boxhs said this on May 26, 2008 at 11:37 pm

  11. Thanks!
    It also worked on Windows Server 2003.

    PeterX said this on July 15, 2008 at 5:16 pm

  12. thank you for posting this and for google having it on the first page of results :D

    kenji said this on October 27, 2008 at 9:04 am

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