How to load forum page with 'Useful links' contracted?

[anthonyrichards]

I have saved the forum page as a bookmark, but every time I load it, it annoyingly opens with the 'Useful links' expanded, giving me loads of empty space filling up the page with unwanted stuff with the forum threads starting out of sight below the screen.

How can I get the page to load with the 'useful links' section not expanded?

Even after I have contracted the 'useful links', when I return to the forum front page after viewing a thread, the 'useful links' is always annoyingly expanded again!

Please can you ask the website developers to change this behaviour?

May I also be so bold as to suggest removing a couple of surplus lines from above the thread info by contracting two of the introductory lines along the following lines:

Change

"This is the place to ask questions of and share information with other users of Intel Visual Fortran. Compaq* Visual Fortran users are also welcomed. For technical support, please click the Tech Support link."

to
"Ask for and share information with other users of Intel Visual Fortran. Compaq* Visual Fortran users are also welcomed. For technical support, use the Tech Support link."

And change
"Please do not include private information such as your email address or product serial number in your posts. If you need to share private information with an Intel employee, they can start a private thread for you."

To
"Don't include private information in your posts (e.g. your email address or product serial no.) If you need to, we can start a private thread for you to do this."

This will more space for the really useful Thread stuff (when the annoying useful links" is contracted!)

[lklawrie]

Even better, or in addition, shorten the "useful links" to:

Knowledge base (show some of the contents)
Useful Information(Fortran 2003, etc)

and make those both links. So the useful links area is only a couple lines.

I have just gotten used to minimizing it (the useful links section) after each reload, but it is pretty annoying.

Linda

[Steven_L_Intel1]

I will ask for a way to remember the state of the Useful Links.

Steve