# Changing Default Launch Mode has no effect **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Created:** [February 20, 2014, 6:47pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/changing-default-launch-mode-has-no-effect/8033 "2014-02-20T18:47:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SonicClang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@SonicClang](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/SonicClang)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2014, 6:47pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/changing-default-launch-mode-has-no-effect/8033/1 "2014-02-20T18:47:11Z")
I’m trying to get my project to launch in a windowed mode, so I get the close, maximize, minimize buttons. No matter what I set Default Launch Mode to, it doesn’t change. The project launches full screen every time. Is there something I may have configured in this project that would override this setting? ---
**Author:** ![nmudge](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nmudge/32/3394_2.png) [@nmudge](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nmudge)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2014, 6:49pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/changing-default-launch-mode-has-no-effect/8033/2 "2014-02-20T18:49:05Z")
How are you launching your project? Maybe the URL or command you are executing to launch the project is specifying the launch mode in it. ---
**Author:** ![SonicClang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@SonicClang](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/SonicClang)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2014, 6:51pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/changing-default-launch-mode-has-no-effect/8033/3 "2014-02-20T18:51:26Z")
The first time I launched it from the gateway web page. After that it put a shortcut on my desktop, so I’ve been launching from that ever since. But just to make sure that shortcut wasn’t messing with me, I launched from the gateway web page and it acts the same no matter what. ---
**Author:** ![SonicClang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@SonicClang](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/SonicClang)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2014, 6:53pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/changing-default-launch-mode-has-no-effect/8033/4 "2014-02-20T18:53:00Z")
Wait a second… On the gateway web page, I just clicked the little down arrow next to “Launch”, and clicked “Standard”, and it opened in Windowed mode. What the hell? How would I have ever guessed to do that??? If I hadn’t just had to play around for an hour…