How to maximize Emacs on Windows at startup?

Question

This is driving me crazy: I simply want Emacs to maximize to whatever screen resolution I have at startup. Ideally I like a cross-platform (Windows & Linux) solution tha

Answer 1

I found an answer a year-or-so back that explains you have to manipulate the registry to do things right:

To start Emacs maximized put this line at the end of your ~/.emacs file:

(w32-send-sys-command 61488)

If you don't want the Emacs tool bar you can add the line (tool-bar-mode -1) [NOTE: value is 0 on original page] to your ~/.emacs file but Emacs won't fully maximize in this case - the real estate occupied by the tool bar is lost. You have to disable the tool bar in the registry to get it back:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\GNU\Emacs\Emacs.Toolbar]
@="0"

If you look in the EmacsWiki under W32SendSys command-codes you'll find that 61488 is maximize current frame