I just discovered this and now it's going to drive me nuts - there is an upper limit to the vertical height you can drag a "restored" (that is, non-maximized, non-minimized) window to. I want to be able to exceed this limit. Is there a registry setting or something I can change to allow me to do this?

If you're curious why anyone would ever want to do this, consider this situation: I have a pdf that I want to view page-at-a-time, while getting the zoom as high as I can. If I could drag the bottom part of the window to obscure the footer of the page plus some application statusbar elements I don't care about, and then resize the application to the top of my monitor, I could get a little more zoom out of it then even possible when it's maximized.

I realize that in most cases, one could rotate her monitor to avoid this being an issue, but I don't have that luxury: the stand isn't high enough off the ground to support my wide-screen monitor in vertical mode (not to mention that I find it a little disconcerting to look at a wide-screen monitor in vertical layout).

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I found a stupid work-around that I'm not very happy with: Since I have a multiple-monitor setup, if I go into the Display Properties page and adjust the screens to be uneven, this effectively increases the vertical resolution and allows me to make the window bigger. I wonder if there's some way to lie to Windows about the vertical resolution without actually having to offset my monitors (or, for anyone with the same problem with one monitor). – Clayton Hughes Jul 31 '10 at 2:04
See [ Create Window larger than desktop (display resolution) ](stackoverflow.com/questions/445893/…). – Matthew Flaschen Jul 31 '10 at 2:13
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