Restoring the window size and position of Disk Utility

I took my mac-mini to a memory upgrade this afternoon, and the guy, who was testing the new configuration of my mini, started, and changed the size of the disk utility window. I hate so much if someone tweaks my personal stuff/setting in their image so much, that I could explode! How can I restore it to the default size and position? I cannot find anything about this on the net, and this is the only setting, I could not restore.

I'm sorry, ignore that Applescript Snippet, use this one instead (make sure to open disk utility before you run it!):
tell application "System Events"
          tell process "Disk Utility"
                    set theSize to size of window 1
                    set theNiceSize to (item 1 of theSize) & "x" & (item 2 of theSize) as string
display dialog theNiceSize
          end tell
end tell

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