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re: Strange "missing window" symptoms
Wednesday, December 12, 2007 at 2:46 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Gary Richards
(3 messages posted)
After *years* of having this problem the mystery is finally solved!
I used Keyboard commands to experiment with Resize and Move on windows that were
behaving normally and then I tried these same commands on the "Missing Window" and
this worked.
Here's How:
I made the program the active window and then I used Alt+Space "S" to size the missing
window and I pressed the Right Arrow and Down Arrow keys which does make the window
bigger. Strange, I saw an "invisible" window, nothing there but the cursor was moving
on the screen as if it was resizing a window. When exited, still no visible window.
Then I used Alt+Space "M" to move the missing window and as soon as I pressed the
Down Arrow key "Pow" there was the missing window made visible.
I could tell from the shape that my missing window had been at the top of my primary
screen, the same width as the screen but with a zero height. Apparently a zero height
window that somehow gets up at the very top of the display goes "Poof!" there's no
way to see it, grab it, resize it, or move it other than by using these "keyboard
only" based Windows commands.
I've been living with this strange behavior for so many years! I can't believe the
mystery is finally solved.
Thanks.
On Wednesday, December 12, 2007 at 2:02 pm, Gary Richards wrote:
>This is an excellent suggestion. Currently my three monitors are set at 1280 x
1024
>each and two of my monitors support 1600x1200 I believe. I could try a couple of
>versions of a higher resolution.
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>Another possible solution:
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>I have a wild guess that this "Default Window location and size" is stored in the
>Registry. If this is true does anyone know how to find or change this information?
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>As I mentioned the program is the Microsoft "PHOTOED" program.
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>Any other ideas?
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>Thanks.
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