>>>You might test this: http://www.jiisoft.com/iemaximizer/index.htm
>>>
>>>I agree - a most annoying 'feature'.
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>>I'll give it a try. Thank you Jim.
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>Do let us know how it goes. See my thread #801494 - a long time complaint of mine ;-)

Oustanding! It works perfectly and it uses only about 600 - 700K of memory.