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Save Window Position

My window position is never saved. When I click the «Open message in new window» button, the window is always opened as maximized. When I restore it, its not where it should be. How can I save the Mail window position?

I’m using Mail version 17.8241.41225.0.

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Saving the window size/position when opening a message to a new window is easy. Simply follow the steps below on how to do so:

1. Open a message in a new window.
2. Press and hold the Ctrl button on your keyboard and click on the X button at upper right corner of the window to close it.
3. When you open a message in another window, the size/position of the window should be saved.

If you have other questions, do let us know.

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Thanks for the suggestion, but it doesn’t seem to work.

The main window position is always saved, but the message window isn’t.

Does anyone else have this problem?

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If that’s the case, we suggest that you create a new User Profile to check if the issue reoccurs. To create a user profile, follow these steps:

1. Go to Settings. Click Accounts.
2. Select Family & other people.
3. Select the Add someone else to this PC tab.
4. Name the user as Test.
5. Leave the password field blank.
6. Hit Next.
7. Sign in as Test user.

Keep us updated with the result.

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We noticed that your post has been inactive for quite some time. We just want to check on things and confirm if you still need help in any way.

Since you mentioned that the initial suggested troubleshooting didn’t work, we’d like to clarify if you indeed pressed the Ctrl key and then clicked the Close button (X) for both the main window and the message window. This is for us to avoid any misunderstanding.

Feel free to post back with additional information.

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I apologize for not responding sooner.

Holding down ctrl and clicking close on the message window didn’t work.

I haven’t tried creating a new user profile. If I get extra frustrated, I might go through the steps of trying to create a new user profile and setting up Mail again.

Thanks for the suggestion.

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Reproducing the issue by creating a new profile would be a good idea to isolate the issue.

If the issue does not happen on the new profile, there could be some broken system components on your current profile. Let’s resolve it by repairing the system following the instructions below:

1. Open an elevated Command Prompt. Right click on Start button > select Command Prompt ( Admin ).
2. Copy and paste the command, Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth. You will get a message » The restore operation completed successfully.»
3. Restart your PC to apply changes.

Please note that this process will take time. You will notice that it’s being stuck on 20%, but it’s normal since it’s checking and configuring necessary changes on the broken components.

Update us with results for further assistance.

Windows utility to save/restore window size & position history? [closed]

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Is there a Windows utility that keeps a record of the size and position of all active windows for later retrieval? For example, if I have my text editor and web browser open side-by-side, and then open Outlook full screen, I’d like a keyboard shortcut to quickly switch back to the editor/browser configuration. I’m thinking of something like Emacs’s Winner Mode.

Does such a thing exist?

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Try WiLMA (Windows Layout Manager).
It was originally created by Stefan Didak to set up and recall different window layout scenarios (development, VM management, VNC, etc). He uses and maintains it to manage dozens of windows on 8+ monitors in his massive home office setup.

Use the free and simple AutoSizer

AutoSizer automatically resizes programs for you, keeping them at a specific size or keeping them maximized. One popular use is to keep Internet Explorer maximized when you go on the web. It works with most software programs, and supports maximizing to specific monitors on multi-monitor computers. Use the handy Always On Top system tray menu to quickly position specific programs above all others. Thanks to Michael A., Brian E., Juliet, Barbara M., John W., Malcolm H. and everyone else who gave ideas and helped improve the program.

A commercial shareware that I believe does what you ask is ZMover ($19.95).

ZMover helps you manage your desktop layout by enabling you to set the size, position and layering of application windows. Instead of wasting time rearranging windows across your single or multiple monitor display, you can configure ZMover to do the job for you. Simply tell ZMover which windows you want to modify and how, then hide the program and let it work in the background. ZMover will monitor the desktop and automatically reposition, resize, or even keep selected windows below or above the others when they open. ZMover can accommodate a large number of window layouts that you can name and sort to your convenience. Moreover, the program displays information that enables you to track its progress in real-time and review its past activity.

ZMover supports multiple display setups and helps you manage application windows across several monitors with ease. The number of applications lacking multiple monitor support and the increased desktop space offered by such display configurations make it more difficult to maintain an optimal desktop layout. ZMover eliminates these difficulties with its ability to store many window layouts and to move windows beyond the primary monitor.

ZMover stores user preferences in a small portable file. So it’s easy to define a desktop layout on one computer and propagate it to other computers in a lab or a data processing center.

ZMover is mainly designed to deal with main windows. Tool windows are trickier because they are often similar on the surface with their program only being able to differentiate them

Save window locations of applications

I am trying to find a way to have a button or key combination that, when pushed, would rearrange all the windows on the desktop to a pre-determined state. There are five programs that need to be arranged to fit in a certain way. I first thought of AutoHotkey, but honestly I have no idea how to approach that method.

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DisplayFusion can create monitor profiles that memorize and recall desktop placement and resolution as well as program window placement. You might be able to take advantage of that latter feature.

I just open sourced an app that can remember and restore window layouts. See https://github.com/adamsmith/WindowsLayoutSnapshot.

WinSize2 is a program written in AutoHotKey that can make Windows remember window position, size and more. The program gives you the ability to save the window size and location for any program or folder.

To save any window position, click on the Windows title bar to make sure the window is active and press the hotkey Ctrl+Alt+Z. A tooltip message will confirm that the position has been saved. Now if you close the window and open it again, the program window will be automatically resized and moved to the position where you saved it.

You can edit the behavior and position of any previously saved window by right-clicking on the tray icon and choosing “Special Parameters”.

Here you can manually enter window position coordinates and size, force the window to open maximized, minimized, full screen or hidden, make it “always on top” and even enter a delay between opening the window and resizing.

WinSize2 works on all versions of Windows right from 95 to 7.

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Ok either I’m dumb or something is very very wrong with W7 UI.

Try this (edited):

1. Right click on the desktop and choose New folder. Name it «left side».

2. Make another new folder on the desktop called «right side».

3. Open the 1st folder «left side» and move/size it so it’s on the left side of the screen.

4. Open the 2nd folder «right side» and move it so it’s on the right side of the screen — NOT OVERLAPPING OR TOUCHING THE FIRST FOLDER AT ALL!

5. Close both windows.

6. Open both windows again. Ooops, that’s not where I put them!

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If you open Computer and put it to where and how you want it then hit F11 TWICE it will save your settings. Yes i know it is a pain but it works for me.

As for the 2nd window it will not open in that position cause it registers that there is already a window open in that position so it will move it slightly to a new position so wach windows can be accessed by a mouse click.

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When I close both windows, they open in the default position again.

This works for me.

1. Open Windows Explorer
2. In the upper left corner click the down arrow by organize
3. Go down and mouse over layout then select menu bar to the right
4. Now position the window where you want it.
5 Select File then Close from the menu bar

When I do this mine will stay put and it will work for any window that displays the menu bar.

Yes it sort-of worked, but as soon as you close both windows it forgets their positions and they open up in the default (last) position.

This is dumb. Sorry to be so blunt but that’s how I see it. Every version of Windows, and every other GUI in history for that matter, always remembers the position of a window after you close it. I don’t see the need for this «change» — if in fact it’s even intentional.

I consider it a bug.

It doesn’t work. Close both windows and open them again. At least one of them will be in the wrong place.

Fortunately you don’t have to understand it. MS only has to fix the bug, and then both of us will be happy.

It doesn’t work. Close both windows and open them again. At least one of them will be in the wrong place.

Yes one of them will be out of position. As i said in my first post the first window opened will have the correct position. But the next window opened will not. That is because it already registeres a window being open in that position. There is no way to force 2 instance of Explorer to open in the same exact position.

If you wish for this to be included to have 2 instances of Explorer to open in the same exact position send feedback. But what you are experiencing is what has happened in every version of Windows as far back as i remember. Which goes back to Windows 95.

Sending Feedback will be your best solution. The F11 trick will allow your first instance only to open in the position you have saved. Every other instance will not open there. Each new instance will open in a new spot.

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No I’m not talking about 2 instances of the same window (folder) I’m talking about opening two DIFFERENT folders.

Windows doesn’t «save» the positions of them after I carefully arrange them how I want (which is side by side, NOT «exactly in the same position»).

Instead it PILES THEM UP ON TOP OF EACH OTHER. How is that useful, exactly? I have to manually drag & move them around (again) to see both at the same time, which is all I want to do in the first place.

I don’t think that’s a radical concept — having 2 windows open and wanting to see the contents of them both at the same time instead of piling them up on top of each other.

Maybe you still don’t understand. If my video camera wasn’t broken I would make a video, but try this.

Right click on the desktop and choose New folder. Name it «left side».

Make another new folder called «right side».

Open the 1st folder «left side» and move/size it so it’s on the left side of the screen.

Open the 2nd folder «right side» and move it so it’s on the right side of the screen — NOT OVERLAPPING OR TOUCHING THE FIRST FOLDER AT ALL!

Close both windows.

Open both windows again. Do you see the problem here?

Yes i understand now. But i dont see how it is really that much more difficult to hit Win Key+ Left Arrow and Win Key + Right arrow.

The main reason this behavior doesnt stay is because they are cascaded or tiled or how ever you want to say it. So that when the first window opens again it doesnt take up the left or right side of the screen. This is behavior that is seen even in Linux.

Your best option is going to be submitting feedback at this time. Because Windows does not know if you are opening multiple instances of Explorer. Also yes it is 2 different instances if you wish to see both folders at once. You would have to have a Explorer window open for the «left side» folder and a Explorer window open for the «right side».

As it has been stated Windows will only save the first position. So even if you carefully get the window to take up half your screen just how you want it and then hit F11 Twice like stated it will save that as the default position and then do the behavior that I said after that.

It does not save multiple screen position. Neither does Linux. I have not seen OS X do this either. Because the main factor behind it is the OS does not know if you are going to want to see 2 folders side by side this time or if you are just looking at a single folder. There is no way for a OS to know what action is going to be taken at the point in time when a Explorer instance is opened so it will only save 1 position.

Submit Feedback. They have a tool with that which will allow you to record your screen as you do things so that you can show them exactly what they want. Maybe there is a way to get Explorer to have the option to open 2 Windows at the same time in a tile view. Maybe it is something that can be added.

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«But i dont see how it is really that much more difficult to hit Win Key+ Left Arrow and Win Key + Right arrow.»

You really don’t see how it’s more difficult to take my hand off the mouse and press some strange key combo(s) instead of just having Windows remember the positions of 2 friggen windows on the screen? Really?

«There is no way for a OS to know what action is going to be taken at the point in time when a Explorer instance is opened so it will only save 1 position.»

Well that’s the thing, see I do know what I want. I know exactly what I want, which is to have 2 windows open exactly where I put them, so why try to out-smart me?

I will submit feedback, thanks, and thanks for responding.

I think the problem with this behavior is the difference between treating a folder and its window as a single entity, as Mac OS classic, OS/2 WPS, and to some extent Windows 95 did, and treating Explorer windows as applications in which you navigate to and view folder contents. With the former, the described behavior looks broken; with the later, it makes sense as that is the last position you had the Explorer application open.

And IMHO, opening a folder on the desktop is the only place where the former «the window is the folder» model still feels like it makes the most sense. Everywhere else in the W7 UI, the «Explorer as an app» model is at least as valid (and moreso in the taskbar). I think MS should give up the pretense of the former model. Explorer is a file manager application (and give it the dignity of a name in the titlebar too).

Windows XP remembers the postion of all windows.

I never had a problem with Windows XP.

I have exactly the same gripe!

I have links on my desktop for a few folders, in XP I can open them and they always remember the settings. In Win7, they all remember the last setting of the last folder opened.

This is a gigantic step backwards, I’m stunned that something this obvious is missing!
MVP — Windows Desktop Experience

In case someone ist interested. I had the same problem as the topic starter but managed to do a workaround using AutoHotKey and the following little script:

Just exchange C:\ and D:\ for whatever path you want.

AutoHotKey is a free and easy to use scripting tool. Just google for it.

PS.: You could split up the script, so each folder opens up by a separated link on the desktop.

You could also spend $10 and get a real solution that will remember as many as you like. 🙂

This is how I solved this issue. I am a bit bummed they took this out of Windows, that was pretty stupid! MVP — Windows Desktop Experience

The workaround lindtec provided is really the only one that will work (w/o using 3rd party WM’s) and it is a cumbersome one. I completely understand walk2k’s frustration, Windows’ desktop management totally blows and to express my disgust with MS in that regard would require language that would get me banned from internet for life. While I (as a programmer) might understand difficulty in managing windows of several instances of the same app there are ways of doing it to a much greater degree and none simpler than utilizing the power of a shortcut. Wjy not have a pos/size and maybe host of other useful WM attributes in there. Not perfect but would achieve a lot of goals.

I am reluctantly used to having Explorer pop where I last left it and THEN pile it on like a retard, but in case of MMC managed files, this doesn’t even get that far. The Services snap-in still opens this stupid little window with 1/8″ sized columns where it wants; event log, computer management pile on etc etc. The Open/Save dialogs do all kinds of funky things, never popping where I’d expect them like for instance (gasp) in the center of the monitor my mouse is in. The list goes on.

I have the PC hooked up to the PJ downstairs that is 99% used as WMC. But it would be nice to have a shortcut which would open an instance of Firefox on that screen so I can browse my whatevers. Not exactly a common scenario I agree, but then that’s just one use and there are plenty of «normal» circumstances where I would like to have a particular arrangement. But what does one expect from the company that still has difficulties remembering folder content style/icon size inside of Explorer. And if they find that difficult, well, there really isn’t much hope for some more advanced management.

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