One of the things that many switchers from Windows to Mac find odd is the way in which OS X manages windows when you click on the Red ( Close ) , Amber ( Minimize ) and Green ( Zoom ) buttons. Red and Amber do what you expect but unlike in Windows where the Maximize button expands the window to fill the screen in OS X the Green Zoom button expands the window Apple style…
A quick fix to make switchers feel more at home is to download Right Zoom from BlazingTools.com. This small utility changes the default behavior of the green button to mimic the Windows way of expanding the current window.
Thanks, that has been a mayor nuisance for me
No problem grumpytico ! Pleased to be of help…
The green button is "Zoom", which is "resize the window to fit the content".
It doesn't maximise, generally, for much the same reason that you don't get MDI on the Mac (plus, displays are getting ever-bigger, so maximising is increasingly worthless).
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Cheers for comments Mo. I agree and dont personally wish to have a Maximize button but useful if you feel the loss of Windows and yearn for a more consistent experience when switching from one OS to the other.
Thank you! I have a very large monitor, but it still drives me nuts when a window won't expand to fill the whole screen. Maybe I'm easily distracted, but I can't stand seeing windows underneath the window I'm actually looking at.
Mo,
Just because you personally prefer and have bought into Apple's "do it this way because we know what's best for you" approach doesn't make maximizing wrong, inefficient, stupid, worthless, or less productive. You like it one way, others like it another.
I use HUGE screens on my Mac Pro (two of them), and I STILL prefer to maximize my windows, because I find fiddling with the mouse to constantly move, resize and reorient my application and document windows to be a complete waste of time.
If I can alt-tab (oops…"command"-tab) between open docs/apps, without reaching for the mouse to move or resize something, why should I have to have everything carefully placed, all with unnecessary mouse usage? For me, the answer is "I shouldn't".
At the very least, Apple should get off of its high horse and realize that some poeple "think different" and prefer to work in ways that make sense TO THEM, and not necessarily to the interface designers in Cupertino, and give them the OPTION of setting the behavior of the MAXIMIZE (oops.."zoom") button.
So stop being a (wrong) pedant, telling someone that their preferred method of working is "worthless".