[Ham-Computers] Window Sizing Problem.

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Joe,

The defacto standard for Windows programs (there are certain exceptions but 
mostly for installers and the like) is that the names of all running programs 
started manually by the operator show up along the bottom of the screen (unless 
you've moved the area to the sides or top).  Further, in the upper right hand 
corner of that programs window are three gray buttons.  

>From left to right, Minimize ("_"), Maximize (either a single rectangle or 
two overlapping smaller rectangles) and Quit ("X").  

If you only have two buttons at the top right, you'll have to contact the 
program manufacturer to find out why.  

If you have all three buttons, with the program window visible (i.e., not 
minimized), click the center button until it shows the two rectangles.  Then grab 
the edges of the window and resize it.  If you still cannot grab an edge, 
click and hold the (by default blue) area along the top of the screen and drag it 
left or right until a "grabbable" edge appears.  Repeat for the other side 
edge.  Then try for the bottom edge.  If you can't grab it, look for a scroll 
bar at the right of the screen and if it's there, scroll to the bottom.  

If the above still didn't work (you couldn't find an edge), and your monitor 
and video board and driver have the capability, temporarily bump the screen 
resolution up one level.  This should reduce the size of everything on the 
screen.  After you get your window shrunk, put the resolution back where you 
normally run it.

The final possibility would be to locate the screen size and position 
parameters in the registry and manually change them.  But I haven't a clue about how 
to do that in XP.

In a message dated 1/9/2006 11:22:02 AM Central Standard Time, 
jwyoung at cybertrails.com writes: 
> I have a program window problem. When I start the program I have to  
> maximize the window in order to see it.
> Then if I try to minimize the window all I see is the program title  
> next to the START icon.
> I have tried everything that I can to try to re-size the window  
> without any success.
> The only view that I can see the window is maximized, and in that  
> view it will not
> allow me to re-size the window. This is Windows XP.
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 

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