Windows 10: Photos App Won't Remember Maximized Preference

I've noticed a weird quirk since I just reinstalled a fresh copy of Windows 11. The Photos app will not stay maximized after restart, no matter if I use the maximized button at the top right, or just manually resize the window to full screen. It always wants to default back to a windowed mode in the center of the screen. I've tried everything, even the old shift+close trick.This was never an issue in the past, so not sure why it's happening with a fresh install and I'm on the most up-to-date build of Windows, with all available updates installed.I've already tried uninstalling and

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Applications won`t maximize

Following a W10 update, applications only open as minimised on the taskbar and won`t maximize. I have tried closing them minimised but no good. Can anyone help ? thanks

 

Photos app not remembering settings

The Photos app keeps syncing my OneDrive folder. Deleting the OneDrive folder from the list of sources doesn't seem to fix the problem. A few hours later and the Photos app will automatically add it back. For whatever reason, the Photos app won't remember
my settings. Anyone have a clue why and how to fix it?

 

The Photos app and its window-maximization weirdness

When opening most applications in Windows, Windows is supposed to figure out whether the application's window is to start maximized, or not maximized (I don't know if there is a proper word for "not-maximized". Floating, maybe?). Usually, if an application gets closed while it's window is maximized, then that same application's window will be maximized the next time it gets started up. This is also the case when opening more than one instance of an application: if an app's window is maximized, and you open another instance of that same app (so that they are both running at the same time), then the new instance's window will also be maximized. Microsoft recently pushed the latest version (2023.11090.12017.0) of the Photos app upon my machine, and this new version apparently deviates from the normal maximized-or-not-maximized paradigm. If I open an image in Photos, maximize the window (if it is not alreadly), close Photos, and then open it again, the window will be maximized, as it should be. However, if at this point I open another image (so that there are now two images opened), the second image will not be maximized. It will be floating. Any subsequent images that I open will also be floating. This is very frustrating for me because I open lots of images simultaneously, and I now have to click maximize on each one. Does anyone else experience this? Is this a bug, or a feature?