Notepad - always maximized (excluding Start menu shortcuts)

If you open the same .txt files regularly, you can create desktop shortcuts to them and set the properties of each shortcut to maximized.

Ron

That is a good idea, but I open Notepad as such:

• from inside Internet Explorer (View Source) on webpages that I need to get code from - so they are only temporary files
• by editing HTML files with the context menu on the files for my website (I set the Edit command to open with Notepad - I use that as my webpage editor, instead of FrontPage or Dreamweaver etc. because I write HTML code myself)

Thanks for the info anyway. It's an idea but it isn't the answer I need. I need something like:

when using the Edit command on HTML files, the 'Application used to perform action:' thing says something like C:\WINDOWS\NOTEPAD.EXE /maximize

but I don't think that's possible.

OK, try this:
Open Notepad and using mouse, drag the window edges to the size you want it to be. Exit Notepad and then reopen. Is it full screen now? :)

DOH, why didn't I think of that before..?

Ron

Message Edited by RoHe on 08-18-2005 10:23 AM

I edited my last post so you may not have seen my further comments before you responded.

Ron

So drag it out to full screen. It won't be "maximized" but it won't get much/any bigger if you click on the maximize button in upper right corner.

Or if you want to get a bit fancier, you could create a small batch file and use that to launch notepad. Type this into notepad and save as notepad.bat. (Note, the path to notepad.exe on your PC might be different). You can either create a desktop shortcut to this .bat file or put it's path\name in place of where you normally put notepad.exe when you're working. This works with XPpro SP2 on my 8400.

@echo off
start /max C:\windows\notepad.exe
exit

Ron

Message Edited by RoHe on 08-18-2005 02:48 PM

:)