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I don’t know about you but I don’t like my gVim real estate to be polluted by toolbar under the menus so in my early days of using gVim I researched and discovered a way to turn them off.

Here is what you need to put in your .gvimrc (or _gvimrc on windows):

" To set the toolbars off (icons on top of the screen)set guioptions-=T

I always struggled with this on my windows Vim and today I saw the fix on a vim users mailing list addressing this exact question.

Here is the way to set height (lines) of gVim (graphical Vim) window:

:set lines=40

and here is how to set width (columns) of gVim windows:

:set columns=80