hey folks! new here and new to computers. got great help from metalj yesterday with a problem that was driving me crazy................sooooooo i'm back for more! I have an h/p pavillion/vista home premium that I purchased on 04/09. yesterday for some reason the size of my minimized page got shorter? in other words when I click on an icon on my desktop,like google or yahoo mail it brings up the minimized screen of the website and I can click on maximize in the upper right hand corner and make it full sized.that's the way it always is I guess,and it's working fine.but why all of a sudden did my min. screen get so short? the width is the same as it was. anybody got a clue? I didn't change any settings or type size.
Are you unable to resize the window (i.e., grab the bottom border and drag it larger)?
yes sir I can make it larger by grabbing the bottom,the side or the corner. it just got really short for some reason and I liked it better when it was a little taller. I could log onto yahoo,jango,you tube etc. etc. without having to make it large first. now I either have to stretch it or maximize it to log in. I realize it's a trivial matter but I just wondered if something was going wrong or if any one else had experienced this . I'm a newbie worry wart I guess and every little thing like this bugs me. you know,the mysterious rattle in your brand new car syndrome.thanks for replying.
Is it only your web browser window that is affected or are your other applications affected?
Which browser / version are you using?
Are you using CCleaner > Window > Advanced > Window Size/Location Cache?
thanks Glenn. internet explorer 8. I don't know how to check the ccleaner > window thing. yes it's only the browser window that's affected. games and other things didn't change size.
Download CCleaner if you haven't got it already, then make sure the "Window Size/Location Cache" thing is enabled under Windows >> Advanced and click "Run Cleaner"
Download CCleaner if you haven't got it already, then make sure the "Window Size/Location Cache" thing is enabled under Windows >> Advanced and click "Run Cleaner"
I have ccleaner. I didn't know what those various options meant under the advanced section . I checked the window size/location cache and ran ccleaner. that cured the problem! now it opens full screen. which of those other options should I be using? or where can I find info on what they do? thanks a lot Aethec. the people around here sure are helpful to an old guy like me. lige .........oh yeah, what does "physically damaged main partition wall" mean? I loaded Norton systems works standard edition 12.0. when I ran the "disk doctor" that was the response and it said it was unable to repair because it was physically damaged. what's that all about? my computer is a h/p pavillion/vista home premium 64 bit. WAIT A MINUTE! I just left and went to google and the screen size got small again. I can make it big by clicking max. but i'm back where I started from. it worked one time. now what?
what does "physically damaged main partition wall" mean?
I believe it means that Norton is diagnosing physical damage on the hard drive. You should contact hp for warranty support.
IE not remembering window size is usually caused by a corrupted registry key which can be fixed by clearing the key using CCleaner or manually editing the registry.
The fact that it spontaneously reverted may mean you have bigger problems or it could just be IE8. IE is supposed to remember the size of the last window closed and use it for the next session. I found that IE8 opens multiple instances of iexplore.exe (I once counted 4 when I had several tabs open) and often fails to end all of them when you close IE8. As a result, what you think is the last window closed sometimes isn't.
I believe it means that Norton is diagnosing physical damage on the hard drive. You should contact hp for warranty support.
IE not remembering window size is usually caused by a corrupted registry key which can be fixed by clearing the key using CCleaner or manually editing the registry.
The fact that it spontaneously reverted may mean you have bigger problems or it could just be IE8. IE is supposed to remember the size of the last window closed and use it for the next session. I found that IE8 opens multiple instances of iexplore.exe (I once counted 4 when I had several tabs open) and often fails to end all of them when you close IE8. As a result, what you think is the last window closed sometimes isn't.
alrighty then! i'm really havin' fun now! I liked ccleaner so much I thought i'd try defragger,thought maybe that would help. well after watching it grind away for 2 hours I did an abort. boy was that a mistake!!! the ol' h/p wouldn't do crap! tried to load a game the cd player wouldn't work. tried to go on the web,that wouldn't work. Tried to run my diagnostics tool,that wouldn't load. Tried to turn it off,couldn't do that either! so I yanked the plug out of the wall,plugged it back in and did a system recovery. It seems to be okay right now. I want to make it plain that i'm not laying any blame on defragger. I had a problem before I used it and I know what a great product ccleaner is. I just want to thank everyone. I really appreciate the help. It must be really exasperating trying to communicate with the cro-magnon man of the computer world.