Comments on: Give Browse Dialog Box More Space in Windows Vista and 7

By: Dave Horsman

Dave Horsman — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:54:53 +0000

I believe this is still an issue. Double click the the title bar (top of the window) it open to it's largest available default size. (Like the RESTORE window, not a MAXIMIZE)

By: balaji

balaji — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:14:33 +0000

yes that's what has been frustrating me too in reshacker. the file>open dialog in reshacker is not resizable. i've tried double-clicking the xp file>open file>save dialogs, but they don't maximize, though they can be resized. but i've tried every possible way to make the reshacker file>open dialog to get it larger than the ugly fixed 426x268 px, but haven't been able to hack it till date. i've tried changing comdlg32.dll/ocx for good. but no success till date.

help or advise would be much appreciated.

thanx.

By: bobsobol

bobsobol — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 06:04:02 +0000

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.

By: baLaJi

baLaJi — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 08:25:15 +0000

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.

By: VG

VG — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:07:00 +0000

^^ Yep. Agree.

By: Kakarotto

Kakarotto — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:56:56 +0000

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.