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Window Size

I want to have the window positions stay the way I put them in. Right now I have to change the position every time.

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Jo Anne Boykin shared this idea  ·   ·  Report…  ·  Admin →
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To adjust the window sizes, please follow these steps:

1. Drag one of the four corners of the window to your desired size and position.

2. In the top right corner of the AOL Desktop, click “Window” then choose “Save Window Size and Position” from the drop-down menu.

Please note that the option to save the window size and position will not work if the window size is set to full screen.

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  • servicestinks commented  ·   ·  Report

    AOL keeps missing the point. We complain that we have to reset the position and size of the windows every time we log on. AOL responds with how to set the position and size and save it. IT DOES NOT SAVE beyond the session!!
    Why don't you pay attention to the complaints and suggestions? Now that would be a good idea

  • [Deleted User] commented  ·   ·  Report

    when adjusting a web page at 150 per cent and do the window option at the top address bar , it does not work at all. if you close the web page after doing the adjustments it does not work

  • LANNY MOFFETT commented  ·   ·  Report

    I have not had a problem with saving the window size and position. However, I would like to have the column widths and positions inside of the Mailbox window be savable. Fields like Date, From, and Subject as well as the width and position of "My Mailbox Folders". None of them get saved.

  • BOB BARIT commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please have the My Mail Folder portion be bigger or somehow we can adjust the size permanently.

  • RONALD K GRESS commented  ·   ·  Report

    AOL sure wastes a lot of its customer's time with problems that should never have happened to begin with.

  • RONALD K GRESS commented  ·   ·  Report

    Several Customers have complained about the inability to set the window size and position for Mail. AOL repeats the "solution." yet it doesn't work. I reset the size and position in Desktop Gold and go to Windows and set it. Next time I start AOL the old setting is back. Come on, what gives?

  • THOMAS WELLS commented  ·   ·  Report

    Windows size as selected goes back to thr original size every 2 0r 3 days. The old aol was far better than the GOLD that we now pay for. I never had any problems with OLD AOL.

  • THOMAS WELLS commented  ·   ·  Report

    Windows size as selected goes back to thr original size every 2 0r 3 days. The old aol was far better than the GOLD that we now pay for. I never had any problems with OLD AOL.

  • Tony Carrubba commented  ·   ·  Report

    i WOULD LIKE THE SAVE WINDOWS SETTING TO SAVE THEM ALL THE TIME. I NEED TO SEE THE COMPLETE E-MAIL ADDRESS IN MY AOL GOLD MAIN SCREEN

  • ANTHONY CARRUBBA commented  ·   ·  Report

    aol gold desktop when i drop down from WINDOWS and select save size and position (DAMMIT SAVE IT))) I what to see the complete email address

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    AOL Gold
    Window size and position "reset" and "save" commands do NOT work

  • Anthony commented  ·   ·  Report

    Save Window Size and Position doesn't work

  • JOHN GUGLIOTTA commented  ·   ·  Report

    The write Email opening screen width needs to be restored to the prior width because the present width is too small.

  • Karen Bomash commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is NOT an idea, it's a complaint, just one among many I have been forced to make because AOL GOLD Desktop is SO BAD! Funny and Sad that I NEVER had any of these issues with 9.8.2! EVERY single time I open AOL, I am FORCED to RESIZE all of my windows because regardless of the FACT that you have a "save size and position window" that I click on every single time, when I reopen the next day, the windows are all different sizes than what I "SAVED"! It NEVER WORKS! I am so fed up with AOL, and am using it less and less as I figure out how to work the other browsers; until I can be completely gone. I have a very stressful life already without having to deal with the ineptness of AOL, and it's refusal to fix it's problems.YOU weren't supposed to "fix" what WASN'T BROKEN, AND THAT WAS 9.8.2!

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Most windows won't move and they are so tall that I can't see the bottoms of them which you sometimes have to see to click on Apply. The settings windows won't move to be resized at all. Please fix this. They are so tall that they cause scroll bars because hey go down to the very bottom of window.

  • ARLINE GEORGE commented  ·   ·  Report

    Nearly every time I go on the Internet, I have to resize the window and move it to the left. Why?

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    The address book opens too small to immediately see the full name, mail, and phone number without resizing the borders. Once resized it doesn't remember the enlarged size.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    I am glad you told me how to see who sender is from by maximizing inbox and using top arrows to move the barrier, however every time I maximize the inbox, when I open an e-mail it shrinks back down, and need to enlarge again, when I close it the inbox shrinks again, this is annoying, should only have to maximize once, let us shrink it back. Also please let us see how much e-mail is in other screen names when we go to switch our screen name. I do not want to have to sign in to every screen name all the time to see if any mail. You took that feature away and we do not like it.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    It is driving me crazy that when I enlarge the screen that contains my mail, it collapses again once I have read that one piece. I WANT A LARGE SCREEN CONSISTENTLY. There is no advantage to small as it is just surrounded by empty (thank goodness) blue space.

  • SHIRLEY JONES commented  ·   ·  Report

    I open my mail screen to full page option. When I click on 1 email to read, it automatically takes me down to a small screen and NOT in FULL SCREEN MODE. Please fix---annoying!!!!

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