As had been said already, it's a feature. It was detailed in a PDC(03?) presentation as being a decision made to reduce distractions- after all, when you maximise windows you do so do focus completely on those applications. Annoyingly for myself, Windows 7 does away with this and it feels weird; maybe simply because of unfamiliarity, but it does feel wrong having bands of colour at the top and bottom of the screen.
if they had transparrent edges on the maximised windows it would drive me round the friggin bend! I like it just the way it is.
I agree with MS on this one, Transparent title bars on a maximised window is just stupid. You maximise the window to take up the whole screen, not take up 95% of it and show you just a little bit of the backdrop at the top. It wouldn't feel maximised otherwise, it'd drive me nuts.
QFT! Drives me nuts too if the window isn't maximized but actually just dragged to the size of the screen.
Check reality before spreading falsehoods. The size is exactly the same, black or transparent, and the frame sides & bottom are not displayed on the maximized window.
By removing the bottom and left/right boarders(maximize) you gain several pixels in your application. cpemma, you are wrong, when you maximize a window, you also gain pixels on top. Look at your web browser icon on the title bar and maximize your window, you will see that it doesn't have a left and top margin anymore when maximized. It's few pixels, but they add-up, and every pixels rows/columns gain for your application is always appreciated.
i think its fine the way it is but one thing i would like to be changed is the color as in while not maximized the window is one color but when max it is a darker shade of it. I would like for it to be close as possible but thats just me.
That's not what I said. To spell that out, the VistaGlazz program does not make a maximised window any smaller in making the titlebar transparent rather than the Vista default black. It merely gives users a choice of fill. Or are you saying when Microsoft decide on a standard they're always right? and
Nope, sorry I miss understood you, I thought you were talking about when a window is maximize by default compared to a non-maximize window scaled to the screen size.
