Windows does a pretty decent job at remembering window properties of an application. That is, if your browser window is resized with the window border, closing the browser and relaunching will result in the same size browser window – just as you’ve left it. Decent is the keyword here however – the system isn’t perfect and can quite annoying when it acts up; especially if you always want an application running in it’s maximized state.

For reasons unknown to me, Microsoft Excel seems to be the worst offending application. Excel isn’t nearly as useful if you have to scroll vertically and horizontally to see all the numbers in your TPS Report; therefor I like to keep Excel maximized.

Rather than rely on Windows decent attempts at window state memory it is instead possible to have Excel, or any application for that matter, open maximized directly upon launch. It’s extremely simple yet I find it not used regularly by individuals who would benefit most from the tweak.

Open the application’s shortcut Properties.

In the Shortcut tab locate the drop-down titled Run. Change it to read Maximized and click Apply.

Pretty simple yet not widely used!

This simple tip is also applicable to the minimized window state too.