Now thats an interesting thing, which I found accidentally today.
As we all know “Dialog boxes” don’t contain Maximize, Minimize buttons. They only hv “Close” button. And thats why we can’t maximize them. If we right-click on the titlebar of a dialog box, we get only 2 options in context menu:
Move
Close
But for my surprise, today when I opened “Browse” dialog box in RUN, I found that it can be maximized even its a dialog box. If u’ll double-click on its titlebar, it’ll be maximized. (But not fully maximized, the border will be still visible). And also u’ll get an option “Maximize” in context menu of titlebar.
So its an interesting thing, which exists in Vista. I think since Browse dialog box looks similar to Windows Explorer and has same properties, thats why it can be maximized irrespective of other dialog boxes.
PS: It happens for all Browse/Save/Open dialog boxes in all windows applications, like Notepad, etc.
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Kakarotto said:
I think you’re missing a point here. It is NOT a bug, it is a feature.. how many times have you been looking for a file in that damn “browse” box, or looking for a picture in such a reduced space?? I had always wanted to have the posibility to maximize it, and here it is.. even if it doesn’t have the button, it has the double-click functionailty to bring it high. And I love this feature, I use it a lot.
VG said:
^^ Yep. Agree.
baLaJi said:
hiya, i wonder if this browse box can be transformed to a fully functional file>open kinda dialog which ”remembers” its size permanently
that’d need some code change i believe. 
bobsobol said:
File browsers commonly do have this functionality. When programming them, you can set them to be “resizable” which is the default in my IDE, or not.
The double click title bar to maximise used to need a patch in 9x, and a tweak in 2k IMS, but I think (though I XPLited my XP copies for a long time now) XP does have this by default…
I’ve been (no not maximising or I forget what I was browsing for in the first place, but) resizing browse for file and File Open / File Save dialogues for many years.
What has frustrated me, is when programmers set the Open/Save dialogue to “not be sizable” especially when thumbnail view is useful.