Newb question about size of a new VI

[TobyD]

I am new to LabVIEW and am having a hard time finding a way to resize the default "new VI". It opens much bigger than I need for most of my VI's and it is a hassle to resize every time. Where can I change this setting?

[Yair]

1. I don't think you can change that. I believe that's hard-coded into LabVIEW. I believe you can however add your VIs to the File>>New dialog by adding them to the LabVIEW\Templates directory (although you might need some playing around).
   
2. The front panel is too BIG for you? I (and most other LV developers) use the 4-2-2-4 connector pattern and use the bottom two for error clusters, which take up room on the FP and I suggest you do that as well, because it's a convention and because the error cluster is important both for the data flow and for error handling. If anything, the FP should be bigger, not smaller.