IDEA: Force Maximize and Right Click Run Line

[Chyndonax]

Two for the price of one. Hope that's OK.

First request. A Way to force any window to maximize. I looked for this awhile back but couldn't find it. It's probably included in some bloatware progaram but I would like it to be a discreet seperate process. Ideally it would be a very simple GUI with a list of windows or processes on one side and a maximize button on the other (or bottom or top).

Second is a right click menu item that will open a simple window similar to the run window in XP. It would only have to appear as an option when an executable is right clicked in Explorer. This way when I want to run a program with special paramater I can just right click on it and choose the new dialog. There's probably a registery hack to do this but maybe not.

Thanks.

[mouser]

http://www.southbaypc.com/AutoSizer/

[mouser]

there are some good "launch command line here" shell extensions which allow you to open a dos box in the directory that the app lives in, which is usually sufficient for what you are wanting to do.

but it's an interesting idea to have a right-click entry that basically let you type in commandline parameters (maybe with a history drop down box) and then ran the program (either in a dos box or not).  seems doable.

[frogblast]

Second is a right click menu item that will open a simple window similar to the run window in XP. It would only have to appear as an option when an executable is right clicked in Explorer. This way when I want to run a program with special paramater I can just right click on it and choose the new dialog. There's probably a registery hack to do this but maybe not.

-Chyndonax (April 30, 2005, 01:45 AM)

Try ExecParm (http://www.mainsoft....r/Files/execparm.zip). It works.

[mouser]

awesome, frogblast !

i can see this section is having another use as well, helping people find very cool software that already exists.

other nice little utilities on mainsoft site:
http://www.mainsoft.fr/en/downloads.htm

[epheterson]

For the maximize program, something I've noticed is with my logitech mouse, you can program one of the buttons to maximize a window and even when a window has the maximize button grayed out, it still maximizes it, check out if your mouse has that!

[mouser]

scott told me about this tool that adds some cool buttons to your windows, which will do the maximize thing plus more:
http://www.actualtools.com/

there are other freeware things that are similar too, but i cant rememebr names.  search snapfiles freeware maybe..

[mouser]

nudone's column today also discusses a scripting tool that might be useful:
https://www.donation...005/05/autoit_3.html

[skrommel]

  The shortest script yet!

WinMax will maximize most windows on your system. It's _very_ crude, so be warned! Maybe I'll make a real script which only maximizes the windows upon creation and checks the state to stop them from covering the start menu?

Download and install AutoHotKey from www.autohotkey.com. Save the script as WinMax.ahk and doubleclick to run.

Skrommel

[Select]

;WinMax.ahk - Maximizes windows

Loop
{
  WinMaximize,A
}