hehe, need a little help. my novice question is this, how do i set my preferences up so that every time i launch maya 6.5 complete my app window fills the screen. i have tried several combinations of pref settings to remember... to save settings with file... and so on. it is frustrating to be able to do most application specific tasks and let this irritate me each time i launch the app...
thanks in advance for any advice you may be able to give... ls
No wonder! Its a windows thing, learn to use your os 
(the os governs about 10-15% of everything you do with maya so learning to use it properly is no joking matter), now this little trick appliaes to all windows apps by the way, remeber state or not.
However right click on your shortcut in xp and choose propertes and from the rund dropdown menu choose maximized. Maya will now start maximized.
thanks joojaa, that accomplished the task, but i do remember a change of preferences initiating this irritation, so i will keep looking. spelling is also no joking matter.
Yes it is 
(or actualy look do you want the answer or not!) 
As far as i remeber theers no such option in maya, and never been, atleast theers no such command that could accomplish this. Maya only stores the window size (and read size in maya is allways the nonmaxed windows size), not its state. But this ones been said numerous times.
If theres is such a option then its well hidden inside the binary because theres no way to querry the fact inside maya. And thus theres nothing pref folders that can contain it either.
However you can force maya to have window with fullscreen scale, but its still not maximized, just fills the screen just like youd manualy drag the window into max size.