Many people who use Internet Explorer still are annoyed when they open IE and it opens in some strange window size. There is a little utility which will automatically take care of these little annoying issues for you and that is IE New Window Maximizer. Its features (from their website):

• Automatically maximize new IE and OE -windows.
• Open new IE windows in the background.
• Automatically close popup windows.
• Set up rules for specific windows.
• Import/Export window rules.
• Hide/show/close all open IE windows using a hotkey.
• Maximize all new IE windows to “fullscreen” -mode.

The program is freeware, so if this is something you want to handle on your PC, give it a try and see what you think. www.jiisoft.com/iemaximizer/index.asp