Easy way to resize a window to fit the whole screen?

I'm looking for a shortcut or an easy way to make a window fill the whole screen, but without maximizing it.

Right now, I do this by moving the window in the top left corner of the screen then dragging the sides to make it fit the whole screen, but it's a bit tedious when it needs to be done several times.

Is there any easy way to do this in Windows 7?

7 Answers

Something like Sizer might be what you're looking for:

You can drag the window to left side of the screen (Win + left arrow) to fill the left half of the screen and then drag just the one remaining side of the window to the other side of the screen.

There is at least one reasonably quick way to do this on Windows 7:

1. Snap the window to one side of the screen – drag the window to the right or left side of the screen until the screen lights up, then release. You can also do this with the keyboard: Win-key + left/right arrow key
2. Hit Alt + Space, then the "S" key to enter keyboard resizing mode.
3. Hit the right or left arrow key repeatedly or hold it down until the edge of the screen becomes flush with the window's border. Hit Enter.

No it is not possible unless you use your mouse. You can maximize it by pressing F11 .

Windows key + up arrow will maximize it if it isn't already.

Try dragging the title bar straight up to the top of the screen. Drag it down to return to the previous size.

I had a similar problem with an application which behaved unexpectedly when maximized so I wanted to expand it to fit the whole screen without maximizing it. I wrote a simple command line tool (ExpandWnd) for that purpose so I can script and automate things.

expandwnd "<window title>" 

<window title> is case sensitive and will match the first window whose title contains <window title> and expand it to fit the whole work area of its current display (in case of an multip-display environment).

Although this question is quite old maybe someone can also make use of that command line tool.