Windows 7 - Windows does not remember window size and position

This problem is really for people using the "open each folder in its own window" option.

When a window is opened it has a size and a location. Whatever window is opened next will have the same size and location. This is so annoying and it should not be behaving this way. EACH window should remember its own size and positioning so that the next time it is opened it will open in the same place and with the same size. This is not happening. When a window is opened in Windows 7, it will open with the size and position of whatever window was last opened. You end up moving and resizing every window once it is opened to get it back where it was the last time you used it.


This can't possibly be by design. Can someone tell me if this is a bug or is it by design.

Here is the million dollar question ... has anyone found a workaround that does not involve using 3rd party software?

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[TolucaLakeGuy]

Thanks for this video. It's quite a waste of time for thousands of us who need to stick to our daily workflow and window positions... because we have to reposition many windows on our screens EVERY TIME WE RESTART WINDOWS 7!

In the late nineties, Microsoft invested $100,000,000.00 (one hundred million dollars) in Apple. So, these types of bugs are actually very profitable for Microsoft! Apple stock is now worth roughly ten times more than it was then.

[MrMram1971]

That Explorer remembers its last state is not nearly as annoying to me as that the applications like MS Outlook and IE - NOT - remembering their last maximized and positioned state. For example, Windows + Left Arrow on MSO and Windows + Right Arrow on IE 9. They do not open up the next time in that position.

[DeathfireD]

@Ramdomvideoperson move over it in your tool bar. Right mouse click on the preview window and select maximize. When it maximizes, grab the top of the program and drag it down. The window may appear really small but you can simply drag it wider now that it's back on your screen.

[Ramdomvideoperson]

i have a problem. my window is out of my screen and cannot get it back, i literately have to guest what position my window is at in order to drag it back into my screen. anyone got any ideas?

[jmloethen]

This is so messed up, it depends if the window is still open, if you minimize it then that position doesn't count, or I like to use the double click on the edge shortcut to get it to the max height and that doesn't count as a "position".

[millahnna]

It's also a problem for people who make shortcuts to specific folders because they want those folders to open in a specific way. THe fact that my view style for folders (small/med/large icons, thumbs, etc.) seems to be nearly global is also highly annoying.

[westhumber96]

WindowManager

try this app

[VailPatriot]

Fire the mentally deficient code monkeys responsible along with the managers who let this trash out the door! WTF??

[7n1ck7]

Thank you for posting this. This annoys me to no end. If only there was a solution or bug fix for this.

[Temerald2003]

Your answer is simple, you are not opening folders, you are opening multiple instances of the same program (Explorer.exe). First, what you are asking would open another door for hackers to open windows "off screen"; furthermore, in a multi-monitor scenario, a simple screen layout change could put windows completely "off the screen". BUT-- if you insist: A HTML script could control window size and position, then all you'd have to do is put a shortcut to the script on your desktop.