Well, for the window resizing, I've noticed that there doesn't always seem to be a logic to it. Sometimes it will remember the view setting, sometimes it won't. But there's a nice easy keyboard shortcut to minimise/maximise, just hit alt+space, then 'x' to maximise, or 'n' to minimise. I've been working with windows since 3.0, and was a DOS master from v3.3 (9 years old!!), so I've got used to using a lot of keyboard shortcuts, it saves a lot of time.

As for the networked PC, could be a number of things. Are they all NTFS file system? Is the windows firewall on? Is the non-connecting PC a member of a domain? Are all the PCs in the same IP subnet? Narrow it down for me, what message are you getting? If any...does the event viewer (start, run, 'eventvwr') show anything helpful?