windows, pop ups open on left hand side of screen

Hi there,

I am having some annoying problems with Vista x86. Whenever I open a
window in Windows Live Messenger they open all the way on the left side
of the screen. Even when I close it in the centre. I do not think it's a
problem with Messenger as all windows in Vista open in the left hand
side for me like when I edit "Taskbar and Start Menu properties",
"Adjust windows time". All pop ups in explorer also open all the way in
the left hand side. It seems that somehow the alignment has shifted to
the left hand side. Can someone please help me as I would like to have
them open in the centre rather than the left.

Thanks.


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joshnz

Hi, joshnz.

What is your screen resolution? Maybe those windows "think" they are in the
center.

RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX

Microsoft Windows MVP
Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8089.0726) in Win7 Ultimate x64

"joshnz" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> Hi there,
>
> I am having some annoying problems with Vista x86. Whenever I open a
> window in Windows Live Messenger they open all the way on the left side
> of the screen. Even when I close it in the centre. I do not think it's a
> problem with Messenger as all windows in Vista open in the left hand
> side for me like when I edit "Taskbar and Start Menu properties",
> "Adjust windows time". All pop ups in explorer also open all the way in
> the left hand side. It seems that somehow the alignment has shifted to
> the left hand side. Can someone please help me as I would like to have
> them open in the centre rather than the left.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> --
> joshnz

On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:27:50 -0500, joshnz <>
wrote:

>
>Hi there,
>
>I am having some annoying problems with Vista x86. Whenever I open a
>window in Windows Live Messenger they open all the way on the left side
>of the screen. Even when I close it in the centre. I do not think it's a
>problem with Messenger as all windows in Vista open in the left hand
>side for me like when I edit "Taskbar and Start Menu properties",
>"Adjust windows time". All pop ups in explorer also open all the way in
>the left hand side. It seems that somehow the alignment has shifted to
>the left hand side. Can someone please help me as I would like to have
>them open in the centre rather than the left.
>
>Thanks.

From vistanews.com

Aero also gets some new Aero features that sound a little like a
cereal ad: Snap, Shake and Peek. Aero snap is pretty cool; it allows
you to drag a window to the right or left edge of the screen, and that
window will automatically resize to fill exactly half the screen. Then
you can drag another window to the opposite side, and have a nice
side-by-side view of both windows. Unfortunately, this doesn't work
quite as well if you have multiple monitors. On my three monitor
setup, I can't "snap" a window to the "inner" side of a monitor - the
three monitors are treated as one big one, sort of. That is, windows
will only snap to the far left and far right, but each still only
fills half the screen of its respective monitor, not half the total
screen real estate. Snap also allows you to maximize a window by
dragging it to the top of a monitor (it maximizes to fill that monitor
only). I find this surprisingly useful. At first glance, I wondered
why you would need this when you could just click the Maximize button,
but dragging is (for me, at least) a quicker and more natural way to
maximize windows. On the other hand, until you get used to it, you may
find yourself maximizing and snapping windows when you didn't intend
to.

Screen resolution is 1280x800. Funny thing is that this problem was no
happening 2 weeks ago. I do not know what has changed between then an
now. I have absolutely changed nothing

Every window seems to be hugging the left hand side and opening there
Even the UAC confirmation is over on the left hand side now. I really d
not know why it's doing that

Thanks for your reply

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joshnz