Aqua-Soft ForumsOne of the things I like is that when you maximize a window in Mac OSX it does not fill up the whole screen since it gives space for the dock no matter where it's positioned.
Is there a way to emulate this on Windows?
Maximum window size
WindowFX does this (the best), followed by Hawkeye ShellInit (http://www.hawkeyetech.com) which makes a margin the same way the Windows taskbar/docked programs take up space. But in my experience this is unacceptably quirky with random programs. So I would only use WindowFX's method myself.
Awesome. I'll try both. Thanks 
One of the things I like is that when you maximize a window in Mac OSX it does not fill up the whole screen since it gives space for the dock no matter where it's positioned.
...but than again, OS X doesn't have a big screen-space covering menu on each window such as M$ windows does. Limiting the screen-size reduces my windows-workspace/visable window even more. I guess that's one of the main reasons why OS X mimic-ing doesn't work as smooth and effective in my experiance as the real OS X does. Limiting window size reduces active window (too) much, but a full window makes the Dock more or less an annoyance on the bottom of the screen. :slant:
Is there a way to emulate this on Windows?
I think WindowFX (1.12, dating from 9/29/2003, when will this ever be updated?) does a decent job.
wiebeest windowfx is already at 2.12, released on 12/4/2004... its been updated
Well when i go to maximize on a mac i use it covers the whole screen including the dock
some windows like browsers do. its more like a dynamic size based on the window's content. browsers can have dynamically sizing content so they maximize themselves big. word processors show only a page (usually) so they usually maximize based on the size of the document etc.
Internet Explorer and Safari both maximize over the dock
WindowFX does this (the best), followed by Hawkeye ShellInit (http://www.hawkeyetech.com) which makes a margin the same way the Windows taskbar/docked programs take up space. But in my experience this is unacceptably quirky with random programs. So I would only use WindowFX's method myself.
Just wanted to say thanks for Hawkeye ShellInit, I found it to be far superior to WindowsFX for maximising with the dock.
Just wanted to say thanks for Hawkeye ShellInit, I found it to be far superior to WindowsFX for maximising with the dock.
If you say so:-) I couldn't get it to run (without problems) with WindowBlinds running.