How to set default window size on Macintosh HD

If you're referring to the default window size for the "Macintosh HD" window in macOS Monterey, there isn't a built-in setting that allows you to specify a default window size for specific folders or drives.

However, you can manually adjust the size of the Finder window for the "Macintosh HD" drive to your preferred dimensions, and macOS will remember the size and position of Finder windows individually. So, the next time you open the "Macintosh HD" drive, it should open with the dimensions you set previously.

Here's how you can adjust the window size for the "Macintosh HD" drive:

1. Open a Finder window and navigate to the "Macintosh HD" drive.
2. Resize the window by clicking and dragging the edges or corners of the window until it's the size you want.
3. Close the Finder window.

The next time you open the "Macintosh HD" drive, it should open with the dimensions you set previously. Keep in mind that this setting applies individually to each folder or drive, so you'll need to adjust the window size for each folder or drive if you want them to open with specific dimensions.

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Hello Naakkeli,

We have a great support article that might help with this. Please take a look at it here: View memory usage in Activity Monitor on Mac - Apple Support. Follow this guidance:

• "In the Activity Monitor app  on your Mac, click Memory (or use the Touch Bar) to see the following in the bottom of the window:
• Memory Pressure: Graphically represents how efficiently your memory is serving your processing needs.
  • Memory pressure is determined by the amount of free memory, swap rate, wired memory, and file cached memory.
  • Physical Memory: The amount of RAM installed.
• Memory Used: The amount of RAM being used. To the right, you can see where the memory is allocated.
  • App Memory: The amount of memory being used by apps.
  • Wired Memory: Memory required by the system to operate. This memory can’t be cached and must stay in RAM, so it’s not available to other apps.
• Compressed: The amount of memory that has been compressed to make more RAM available.
  • When your computer approaches its maximum memory capacity, inactive apps in memory are compressed, making more memory available to active apps. Select the Compressed Memory column, then look in the VM Compressed column for each app to see the amount of memory being compressed for that app.
• Cached Files: The size of files cached by the system into unused memory to improve performance.
  • Until this memory is overwritten, it remains cached, so it can help improve performance when you reopen the app.
  • Swap Used: The amount of space being used on your startup disk to swap unused files to and from RAM.
• To display more columns, choose View > Columns, then choose the columns you want to show."

We hope this helps. Let us know if we can assist with anything else at all. Take care.

I have tried many tricks (including fiddling with .DS_Store files) with not much long-term success. So I have given up with that. But tell me if there is a robust way to do that.

I miss the old System 4-9 Finder which remembered window sizes and locations (but "rebuilding the Desktop" deleted Get Info comments unless 3rd party add-ons were used).