Since many people (such as myself) set the Windows taskbar to autohide, it is
very annoying to have the IDE *explicitly* compensate for the taskbar space when
it does not need to at all. For expert users, it would be useful in a new build
to have the default window config use the full screen the first time you use the
IDE. Otherwise you have to manually adjust every window which is never exactly
right. Ideally the Windows installer would try to detect this and do this for
you automatically. I suggest the patch:

Index: Utilities.java
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RCS file: /cvs/openide/src/org/openide/util/Utilities.java,v
retrieving revision 1.40
diff -c -r1.40 Utilities.java
*** Utilities.java	2000/07/03 17:15:35	1.40
--- Utilities.java	2000/07/10 09:46:21
***************
*** 1134,1140 ****
       */
      public static final Dimension getScreenSize() {
          Dimension screenSize =
java.awt.Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize();
!         if (isWindows()) {
              screenSize.height -= TYPICAL_WINDOWS_TASKBAR_HEIGHT;
          }
          return screenSize;
--- 1134,1140 ----
       */
      public static final Dimension getScreenSize() {
          Dimension screenSize =
java.awt.Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize();
!         if (isWindows() && !Boolean.getBoolean ("netbeans.no.taskbar")) {
              screenSize.height -= TYPICAL_WINDOWS_TASKBAR_HEIGHT;
          }
          return screenSize;