Weird Problem with Message Boxes

Hi all
Very new here as I only found this site whilst hunting for a solution
to a problem
I 've got and hopefuly someone here may have an idea, always asuming
you can figure out what I'm on about
Right well what happening is that I'm losing the right hand side of my
dialog and message boxes, it looks just like the box is too small and
just needs dragging bigger but I can't. For instance when I go to print
a photo in my 'Print pictures' box that comes up I can only see the left
hand side of the top 3 print size options on the right. The rest is
outside the box and I can't scroll or resize it. Its the same if I go in
to 'Display Setting' I've lost the right side and the bottom of this
box.
I've been hunting like crazy to find a solution to this one but I can't
even find any mention of a similar problem. I'm hoping you guys are
going to tell me I'm either blind or daft and help me fix it.
Heres hoping


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rhitey

rhitey;1052124 Wrote:
> Hi all
> Very new here as I only found this site whilst hunting for a solution
> to a problem
> I 've got and hopefuly someone here may have an idea, always asuming
> you can figure out what I'm on about
> Right well what happening is that I'm losing the right hand side of my
> dialog and message boxes, it looks just like the box is too small and
> just needs dragging bigger but I can't. For instance when I go to print
> a photo in my 'Print pictures' box that comes up I can only see the left
> hand side of the top 3 print size options on the right. The rest is
> outside the box and I can't scroll or resize it. Its the same if I go in
> to 'Display Setting' I've lost the right side and the bottom of this
> box.
> I've been hunting like crazy to find a solution to this one but I can't
> even find any mention of a similar problem. I'm hoping you guys are
> going to tell me I'm either blind or daft and help me fix it.
> Heres hoping

Have you gone into the advanced window appearance and adjusted the
sizes of various fonts? A similar think happened to me and I was able to
go to that location and fix it. Hope this points you in the right
direction.


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nate42nd

"rhitey" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> Hi all
> Very new here as I only found this site whilst hunting for a
> solution
> to a problem
> I 've got and hopefuly someone here may have an idea, always asuming
> you can figure out what I'm on about
> Right well what happening is that I'm losing the right hand side of
> my
> dialog and message boxes, it looks just like the box is too small
> and
> just needs dragging bigger but I can't. For instance when I go to
> print
> a photo in my 'Print pictures' box that comes up I can only see the
> left
> hand side of the top 3 print size options on the right. The rest is
> outside the box and I can't scroll or resize it. Its the same if I
> go in
> to 'Display Setting' I've lost the right side and the bottom of this
> box.
> I've been hunting like crazy to find a solution to this one but I
> can't
> even find any mention of a similar problem. I'm hoping you guys are
> going to tell me I'm either blind or daft and help me fix it.
> Heres hoping

If the advice about font size settings doesn't work, it may be a
screen resolution issue causing the text to display larger while the
message box remains the same size, i.e., too small. You would expect
the message window to resize with the resolution change but I've
occasionally had that problem. I can't remember which way it goes. I
think you'll want a higher resolution, but try higher and lower
resolution settings and see what happens.

At www.digitallis.co.uk there is a Resize Enable utility for
downloading. It only works sporadically on my Vista message windows
but it may help.

BTW, before you do anything, keep in mind that your desktop icons can
be scrambled by a resolution change - even opening in Safe mode with
its ugly primitive graphics will do that. Go to http://www.midiox.com
and download Desktop Icon Restore. It's a simple, elegant app that
works in Vista 32 and 64 as well as XP. (There's a separate installer
for Vista 64). Once installed, and before you make any resolution
changes, right-click a blank area on the desktop and select the Save
Desktop option. To restore the old order after a scrambling (or if
you mistakenly deleted an icon) click on Restore Desktop. It doesn't
get any simpler or easier than that! You can even save separate
schemes for different resolutions or users. Be sure to read the
accompanying .rtf file and do a new save whenever you add or rearrange
desktop icons.