RealtyRoy
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Hello everyone,
I've been dealing with a Vista issue since we bought the laptop just before Christmas.
Now I'm not like a lot of people who think Vista is another ME, for the most part I have no complaints.
About half of the time when I click on a link weather it be on this site or email or whatever the window I was viewing when I clicked on the link minimizes to a very small window in the upper left corner of the desktop.
Window at that point is only big enough to see the symbols for minimizing or maximizing or closing. You know the three you usually see at the upper right of any window.
When I click on the maximize button the window is back and when I click on that link again it takes me to where it was supposed too the first time I clicked on it.
Very strange, Vista issue? Toshiba issue? Hardware, software?
Anyone have this happen to them and what did you do about it?
Thanks very much for your time!
Roy
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hershey
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I get the same thing on my HP desktop. So I'm pretty sure its a Vista thing....how do you fix it????? I haven't even figured out how to keep my PC from locking up. I suppose its something that Microsoft thinks we need.
Actually, Vista is much like ME in my opinion.
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ReadyToGo
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This was kind of a situation in XP and IE. I assume one of the windows is the file manager. If so read on.
This is what to do on XP and IE (not necessary file manager. the solution was to Maximize the IE window or all the windows, and then close each one by using the File button. The last one closed is who all future IE windows would now open.
So, I am suggesting that you do the same thing, maximize each window and exit via File,Close instead of the X. In general while X is similar to File/close, it isn't quite the same thing, and one of the differences is that it doesn't save some things.
I am on Toshiba Vista and I don't have that problem.
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Serena
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This would typically be caused by an unintentional registry entry you may have made without even knowing it.
One you change the size of a window, it can be remembered for the next time you reduce the size of a window. (This is true of a number of Windows versions.)
See if you can grab the little window's corner and expand it. Then click the X and close it. Open another window and see if the problem occurs when you click the button just to the left of the X to unmaximize it.
If that fails, try going to Control Panel, then Folder Settings.
On the View tab, you will find a checkbox that remembers each folder's view settings. Uncheck this, save. Open a new window and see if you still have the problem.
If this fails, above that, you clan click the Restore Folders button. You'll lose any custom settings, but this will set them all back to their defaults.
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eubank
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ReadyToGo wrote:...
... maximize each window and exit via File,Close instead of the X. In general while X is similar to File/close, it isn't quite the same thing, and one of the differences is that it doesn't save some things.
This is also the route I also take with IE and XP. I'm not sure it works with Vista, though (unhelpful as this may be) I did see a little article about window sizing in Vista a couple of days ago.
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pulsar
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I've never seen the behavior and I'm wondering how clicking on an active link in a window would minimize the window - especially if it doesn't open a new window for the linked to page.
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Serena
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It doesn't minimize the window. The window just doesn't open maximized. It opens to whatever 'medium-sized' size you picked at some point. This can also occur if you have a whole lot of windows open and then tile them. Whatever size window that produces will also be remembered later.
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pulsar
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Serena wrote:It doesn't minimize the window. The window just doesn't open maximized. It opens to whatever 'medium-sized' size you picked at some point. This can also occur if you have a whole lot of windows open and then tile them. Whatever size window that produces will also be remembered later.
So this sentence in the original post doesn't say that the window that was already open minimizes when a link in it is clicked on?
About half of the time when I click on a link weather it be on this site or email or whatever the window I was viewing when I clicked on the link minimizes to a very small window in the upper left corner of the desktop.
Tom
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Serena
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Well, there's a question. I've heard the one I actually answered more times than I can count. OP said link. Was that just any link? Or any URL?
It doesn't necessarily change the issue. A window is always a window. But is this always in a browser? Always IE? Or does it happen in Firefox or other browsers as well? When you said email, did you mean webmail, or Outlook? Did you search for a known bug of that type?
This will happen with browsers or anything else in the tiling scenario I mentioned. When you tile all windows, the OS takes exactly no notice of which kind of window is which, as long as it can be resized at all. It just divvies up the screen real estate equally and whatever size you wind up with depends on however many windows were open at the time. They can get really tiny. It's not actually a bug, but it's much easier to do this unintentionally in Vista than in previous versions. That would produce what was described.
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