Simple Solution
Try the following, it may solve the problem.
Right click the shortcut, and click on Properties. In the Shortcut
tab, click the drop-down option beside Run:
, and select `Maximized.
Hit apply, close the box, run 'er, and see what happens.
There's two other things you can try.
More Advanced Solution
The first is a simple VBScript to launch an application. What you need for this is the window title of Dreamweaver when it first launches. The code is as follows:
set oshl = createobject("Wscript.Shell")
oshl.run "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Dreamweaver CS4\Dreamweaver.exe", 10, false
do
'search for name of window to activate
retval = oshl.AppActivate("**DREAMWEAVER WINDOW TITLE GOES HERE**")
if retval then exit do
wscript.sleep 100
count = count + 1
loop until count = 50 'loop for 5 seconds - change this if you need
Copy & paste that into Notepad, replace **DREAMWEAVER WINDOW TITLE GOES HERE**
with the window title of Dreamweaver, save it as "launchDreamweaver.vbs", and launch that instead of the Dreamweaver executable.
Even More Advanced Solution
If that doesn't work, if you're a tad ambitious, you can write a program and invoke the BringWindowToTop function in user32.dll (see this MSDN article for method details). Then you could write a simple C#/C++/VB program to launch the program, and then set the Z-order.
I know that this may not be the most preferred method, but I don't believe you can invoke user32.dll
using VBScript...