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Startup problem: XP sets/detects window size incorrectly
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Posted by: Mr. Goofletron
This started after I installed my Sound Blaster card... Perhaps it's related: I don't know...
When windows XP starts up everything seems fine, but then a few seconds into loading programs and drivers it seems that windows thinks that the screen is only about 400 pixels wide. All the icons move over to the right edge of the screen and all the popup messages move all the way to the right of the screen.
When I press the maximize button on a window it maximizes to become a bar on the right side of the screen that's about 300-400 pixels wide and the height of the screen.
Added to the mystery: this happens whenever I'm in any resolution OTHER THAN 600X800. When I'm in 600X800 everything behaves correctly. Also: when I set the screen to 600X800, maximize a window and then close it, and then set the resolution to another setting (1280X1024, for instance) then the windows maximize correctly, to the whole screen.
But then when I restart I'm back to things not working right again.
I really get the sense that it's a registry value or something that got changed during the SB Audigy install that was never correctly reset.
Does anyone out there have a suggestion as to how to fix this problem?? Thanks!
Posted by: Mr. Goofletron
I FUGURED OUT THE PROBLEM!!!!
I'm using a program named Trillian. It's a program that bundles together AIM, MSN messenger, ICQ and Yahoo messenger into one window.
Anyways somehow EVEN THOUGH trillian didn't even have a screen up on my desktop it was telling windows somehow to reserve a certain amount of space on the desktop for it, thus pushing everything else over.
I disabled trillian startup once, I believe and the same thing happened.
I ended up reinstalling my video card AND REINSTALLING WINDOWS and the same thing happened. That's when I started to get an idea what was happening...
I hope maybe this helps someone out there.....
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