How to maximize a minimized HTA file

Posted on June 22, 2010March 9, 2015 by Alan

MaximizeMeTest.HTA (MaximizeMeTest.zip) is example code for how to maximize an HTA file that has had windowstate set to mimimize. There are quite a bit of remarks about this, see, ex: http://www.scriptinganswers.com/forum2/forum_posts.asp?TID=2103

Because the state is read only after the HTA loads, I use a pretty big kludge to achieve this. The HTA writes out a temporary vbScript that gets the process ID of the mshta.exe, activates the application, then uses sendkeys to maximize. The temporary file is then deleted.

[Zip replaced broken link 6/23]

Tags: HTA, windowstate

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