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DCollins - 31 Jan 2004 04:04 GMT

When I maximize IE's window, the window frame is skewed
relative to my screen...so that part of the window is out
of sight. The window cannot be dragged into place because
it's maximized. Current work around is to restore to
Normal then drag into 'maximized' size and position.

This behavior is somehow tied to my personal profile. If
I log in under my wife's profile, it works fine (IE max
window is centered and fills screen).

This behavior started while working in the Frontpage98
editor and I tried to display the page I was working on in
IE to test it. I was playing around with the OBJECT HTML
tag to try to do a poor man's client side include of an
html file [visualize Mickey in the Sorcerer's
Apprentice ;) ] Anyway...I got bit, hard. When I viewed
the test html in IE, the skewing problem started ... and
was somehow immortalized in some system config file
associated with my profile, so restarting doesn't help.

About a year ago, this same thing was happening to me when
I started up Outlook .... but it eventually 'fixed itself'.

This is kind of a pain, even though I have a workaround.

Help!

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Don Varnau - 31 Jan 2004 12:13 GMT

Try:
With only the affected window open (and the taskbar NOT set to autohide)
grab the top of the taskbar and pull it up to twice its normal height. Then
close the window, resize the taskbar, reopen the window.
Or
With only that window open, right click the taskbar and choose "tile
vertically" (horizontally should also work.)
Or (a registry edit)
Q194759 - New Internet Explorer Window Opens Partially Off the Screen:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q194/7/59.asp

Another possible fix from http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/ietips.htm
When all else fails, paste the below line into Start | Run

javascript:window.open(screen.availWidth,screen.availHeight)

Note: then make sure the above window is the last one closed.

Don

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> When I maximize IE's window, the window frame is skewed
> relative to my screen...so that part of the window is out
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> Help!

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DCollins - 31 Jan 2004 16:19 GMT

>-----Original Message-----
>Try:
>With only the affected window open (and the taskbar NOT set to autohide)

Don! Stop right there! That did it! Amazing! When I
IE'd to read this message, I still had the problem. That
means I was viewing the IE window in Normal mode, so I
could see the whole window. To follow your first
instruction, above, I exited Outlook and I exited the
Office Shortcut bar (which was in autohide mode ... my
Windows taskbar is never in autohide). Then, in
preparation for step two (pulling up top of Windows
taskbar), I maximized the IE window to put it in the
skew'd state ... but lo and behold, it maximized
correctly!!!, filling the whole screen ... problem
fixed!...Before pulling up the Windows taskbar ???

Source of problem appears to be interaction with Autohide
facility, regardless of which app is autohiding. I
believe autohide state is a user pref, so that explains
why I didn't have problem while logged in under my wifes
ID.

Subsequent restart of machine and Office Shortcut bar did
not cause problem to return ... so looks like it's fixed.

Thanks!! I owe ya a beer!

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