No shrinkage!

Sorry to out this post here, but displays seemed logical...This has happened to all of us at one time: Working on big 24' display at work, so app windows are dragged out to be be big. Go home and open up laptop and app window is still big, going off the screen...and, of course, the bottom right corner where you drag back to size can't be reached. In this case, it's the iTunes window, so clicking the + in the upper left corner doesn't resize the window to fit-to-screen..all that does is make a mini player. Crap. I want to use my airtunes, but I can't reach the toggle down there.
Anyone know any other tricks to get a window to fit to screen?
Should be automatic for the price we pay...
Thanks in advance,
Derrick

Click here and use one of the scripts to change the size of the window. This works with applications other than iTunes as well.
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