The Magnificent Goldberg Posted March 14, 2007 Report Posted March 14, 2007 Last time I was on, I was doing a couple of things at once and made an Internet Explorer window quite narrow, so I could see what was going on, while I did something else. Now, every time I hit a link which opens a second window, the bugger is only an inch and a half wide! I've tried turning it off and on again, to no avail. How do I persuade Windows that I want full screen windows? (Or will it be like this for the rest of my life?) MG Quote
sheldonm Posted March 14, 2007 Report Posted March 14, 2007 .....click your cursor on the corner or edge of the box and drag it to the size you want it? Quote
JSngry Posted March 14, 2007 Report Posted March 14, 2007 Try resizing that small window to the size you want it, then closing it, then reopening it. You do know how to resize a window, right? Just in case not, for what you're dealing with the quickest way is to go to any corner, get the diagonal two-pointed arrow, hold down the left mouse key, and pull/drag. Go to the opposite corner and do it for the other half of the window. Quote
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted March 14, 2007 Author Report Posted March 14, 2007 Yeah, I can do all that. Every time I hit a link that opens another window, it opens one 1.5" wide. Yes, I can make it bigger. But it's a pain in the arse to have to make every fucking window bigger. Windows has become unteachable! Can't learn! Won't learn! And I don't know how to make the changes permanent! MG Quote
Chuck Nessa Posted March 14, 2007 Report Posted March 14, 2007 Yeah, I can do all that. Every time I hit a link that opens another window, it opens one 1.5" wide. Yes, I can make it bigger. But it's a pain in the arse to have to make every fucking window bigger. Windows has become unteachable! Can't learn! Won't learn! And I don't know how to make the changes permanent! MG You have to burn the machine. You might want to hammer it first, but burn the sucker. Then send fresh money to some hardware supplier and more money to Bill Gates. Everything will be ok for a while. You do know this is your fault. Quote
Peter Johnson Posted March 14, 2007 Report Posted March 14, 2007 In Chris Albertson's absence, I feel compelled to post the following: Quote
Scott Dolan Posted March 14, 2007 Report Posted March 14, 2007 Yeah, I can do all that. Every time I hit a link that opens another window, it opens one 1.5" wide. Yes, I can make it bigger. But it's a pain in the arse to have to make every fucking window bigger. Windows has become unteachable! Can't learn! Won't learn! And I don't know how to make the changes permanent! MG Make sure when you stretch the window to full size you have it in the "restore down" setting and not "maximized". Quote
rockefeller center Posted March 14, 2007 Report Posted March 14, 2007 (edited) IE version? OS? http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/answers/32.html http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;EN-US;Q321268 Why do you stick with IE? It sucks, no matter what version. Enjoy. Edited March 14, 2007 by rockefeller center Quote
andybleaden Posted March 15, 2007 Report Posted March 15, 2007 I would get rid of internet explorer and get firefox...no need to be techie or anything like it. Much easier to use, less pop ups etc and bugger all spyware compared with IE Get rid of it....I did the whole lot over a year or so and burnt IE then Office and then went the whole hog and got rid of windows ...bit scarey with the latter at first and now I have it sorted but I do not miss it . Anyway install firefox and try it...it is very good... honest. Quote
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted March 15, 2007 Author Report Posted March 15, 2007 IE version? OS? http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/answers/32.html http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;EN-US;Q321268 Why do you stick with IE? It sucks, no matter what version. Enjoy. Well, I've done all the other things. Thanks Rock for this link. This is what it sez: This trick should work. Turn off your Taskbar's Auto-hide feature, if enabled, and then maximise the problem window. While the window is maximised, increase the height of the Taskbar from one row to two. Allow the maximised window to reset itself to fit into the new area allowed by the taller Taskbar. Now return the Taskbar to its normal single row. This is to try to make Windows re-calculate the window size and boundaries. If no joy, run regedit and remove these registry key values which are most likely corrupted: That's wonderful! I don't understand any of it - except the bit at the end about registry values having been fucked. If that's the cause, then I can simply restore to yesterday morning. MG Quote
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted March 15, 2007 Author Report Posted March 15, 2007 You have to burn the machine. You might want to hammer it first, but burn the sucker. Then send fresh money to some hardware supplier and more money to Bill Gates. Everything will be ok for a while. You do know this is your fault. Yeah - that's exactly how I feel. MG Quote
rockefeller center Posted March 15, 2007 Report Posted March 15, 2007 (edited) Turn off your Taskbar's Auto-hide feature, if enabled, If Auto-hide turned on: right click taskbar -> properties, uncheck "Auto-hide". and then maximise the problem window. Shouldn't be a problem. While the window is maximised, increase the height of the Taskbar from one row to two. Allow the maximised window to reset itself to fit into the new area allowed by the taller Taskbar. Now return the Taskbar to its normal single row. This is to try to make Windows re-calculate the window size and boundaries. Nothing to translate here. Have fun. Edited March 15, 2007 by rockefeller center Quote
king ubu Posted March 15, 2007 Report Posted March 15, 2007 Turn off your Taskbar's Auto-hide feature, if enabled, If Auto-hide turned on: right click taskbar -> properties, uncheck "Auto-hide". and then maximise the problem window. Shouldn't be a problem. While the window is maximised, increase the height of the Taskbar from one row to two. Allow the maximised window to reset itself to fit into the new area allowed by the taller Taskbar. Now return the Taskbar to its normal single row. This is to try to make Windows re-calculate the window size and boundaries. Nothing to translate here. Have fun. Sir, will we have a beer together in vienna, first two weeks of July? Or am I invited for lunch? Quote
rockefeller center Posted March 15, 2007 Report Posted March 15, 2007 Sir, will we have a beer together in vienna, first two weeks of July? Or am I invited for lunch? Yes, sure. Cool! Quote
king ubu Posted March 15, 2007 Report Posted March 15, 2007 Sir, will we have a beer together in vienna, first two weeks of July? Or am I invited for lunch? Yes, sure. Cool! I'll let you know later - the missis will not attend any jazz-related activities, but I'd certainly enjoy an evening at one of the clubs there, and likely some info of general sorts... will drop you a PM in time, ok? Quote
rockefeller center Posted March 15, 2007 Report Posted March 15, 2007 I'll let you know later - the missis will not attend any jazz-related activities, but I'd certainly enjoy an evening at one of the clubs there, and likely some info of general sorts... will drop you a PM in time, ok? O.K. Quote
king ubu Posted March 15, 2007 Report Posted March 15, 2007 Oh, and to bring this back on topic, I'd go with Opera rather than Firefox as browser of choice. Never warmed for Firefox (don't like the looks). Quote
rockefeller center Posted March 15, 2007 Report Posted March 15, 2007 Never warmed for Firefox (don't like the looks). https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/themes/ Quote
king ubu Posted March 15, 2007 Report Posted March 15, 2007 Never warmed for Firefox (don't like the looks). https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/themes/ I like red cats (green flava), but I'll stick with Opera for now Quote
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted March 15, 2007 Author Report Posted March 15, 2007 Well, it's been off for a lot of the day, and I didn't have time to restor e to yesterday. But I just turned it on now and it's back to normal! GRRRRRRRR! Thanks to everyone for their assistance - even Chuck, who was the rightest of you all MG Quote
king ubu Posted March 15, 2007 Report Posted March 15, 2007 Whoah, Chuck the rightest? Does that make Beri a leftie? Quote
mikeweil Posted March 15, 2007 Report Posted March 15, 2007 Sir, will we have a beer together in vienna, first two weeks of July? Or am I invited for lunch? Yes, sure. Cool! ..... and I'm standing in line for a week in Vienna August 4-11, 2007 - hope you're in town! Quote
mikeweil Posted March 15, 2007 Report Posted March 15, 2007 Well, it's been off for a lot of the day, and I didn't have time to restore to yesterday. But I just turned it on now and it's back to normal! GRRRRRRRR! I know this kind of problem - Windows needs to be restarted in regular intervals to work properly, it seems .... In Germany insiders call it Windoof - a pun made up from the words "windows" and "doof" (= imbecile). Quote
mikeweil Posted March 15, 2007 Report Posted March 15, 2007 (edited) I had a similarly dumb problem yesterday: All of a sudden the system would freeze in the startup procedure before it initialized the main hard disk. Pressing the reset button would start only in safe mode. Couldn't find a problem there. Same thing repeating during startup several times. I finally disconnected everything but screen and keyboard and an old Windows mouse and there it was again starting as if nothing had happened. Turns out it was the driver of the scannner ...... reinstalled it and everything's back to normal. Windumb! Edited March 15, 2007 by mikeweil Quote
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