Fix the "Restore" AI Window Size when opening an AI file from File Explorer
What we want is simple, make it so that opening an AI file from File Explorer does not change if AI is in windowed mode, or fullscreen mode.
This has been an issue for years that disrupts the workflow of users on a regular basis. Here is an old forum thread going back as far as June 2012 further detailing this ongoing issue: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1026020
When opening an AI file from File Explorer, Illustrator automatically Restores down to a window from Maximized mode. While the work-around, (of extending edges of Illustrator's window from edge-to-edge of the desired monitor), minimizes the impact of being reduced to windowed mode, many other users, including myself, still find ourselves re-Maximizing the window to fullscreen.
Adobe, via Creative Cloud, recently launched the first round of 2019 Edition updates, and it would be greatly appreciated if this pesky and disruptive issue would be resolved at last.
Thanks for your time.
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Anonymous commented
When opening any files, by clicking on the files themselves on my desktop, the illustrator window shrinks and the popup "The window is too small to open this file" shows. I'm not making the window shrink, it does this automatically. What do I do?
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Jordan Kotz commented
Running Windows 10 v.1903 and Illustrator v.24.0.2; with Illustrator open and maximized in the background, when double-clicking an .ai file in explorer, or right-clicking and selecting "Open with > Illustrator 2020", the Illustrator window is resized (usually to it's smallest possible size).