"E Breivik" <EBrei***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F2CBCB32-558C-4D51-A6D3-0CAD12868181@microsoft.com...
>I have a Dell Latitude D600 at work where I have a secondary display
> connected to VGA. Then I took my laptop home where I have a much bigger
> display and I used Word. When I tried to open Word  the next day at work
> it
> seemed to be outside the viewable area and I couldn't reach it. I had to
> disconnect the secondary display and reboot to be able to see the Word
> window. Also many of the dialog boxes of Visual Studio ended up out of
> reach.
>
> How can I resolve this so no windows end up outside the viewable area?
>
> Regards
> E Breivik

"Richard In Va." wrote:

> Don't know how to "force" all windows to stay within the viewable area, but
> you might change the screen resolution to something much higher to bring the
> window into view then drag/resize your word window towards the top-left of
> the monitor, then reset your resolution back the way you had it. (maybe
> un-maximize the word window with the " _ " window resize icon as well)
>
> To change resolution, right-click on an unused area of your desktop, select
> "properties" from the pop-up menu, then select the "settings" tab.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> Richard in VA.
> +++++++++++++
>
>
> "E Breivik" <EBrei***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:F2CBCB32-558C-4D51-A6D3-0CAD12868181@microsoft.com...
> >I have a Dell Latitude D600 at work where I have a secondary display
> > connected to VGA. Then I took my laptop home where I have a much bigger
> > display and I used Word. When I tried to open Word  the next day at work
> > it
> > seemed to be outside the viewable area and I couldn't reach it. I had to
> > disconnect the secondary display and reboot to be able to see the Word
> > window. Also many of the dialog boxes of Visual Studio ended up out of
> > reach.
> >
> > How can I resolve this so no windows end up outside the viewable area?
> >
> > Regards
> > E Breivik
>
>
>

news:F3626141-706C-4447-9D66-844B60830547@microsoft.com:

> Thanks for your reply.
>
> At home I have Matrox dualhead2go digital wich gives me 3200*1200. At
> work I have a secondary display with 1280*1024 and I cannot increase
> this.
>
> It seems to me that this must be a bug in Windows XP. What good is a
> window outside the viewable area that you cannot interact with?
>
> Maybe there is a 3rd party app that will help collect the windows.
>
> Regards
> E Breivik
>
> "Richard In Va." wrote:
>
>> Don't know how to "force" all windows to stay within the viewable
>> area, but you might change the screen resolution to something much
>> higher to bring the window into view then drag/resize your word
>> window towards the top-left of the monitor, then reset your
>> resolution back the way you had it. (maybe un-maximize the word
>> window with the " _ " window resize icon as well)
>>
>> To change resolution, right-click on an unused area of your desktop,
>> select "properties" from the pop-up menu, then select the "settings"
>> tab.
>>
>> Hope this helps!
>>
>> Richard in VA.
>> +++++++++++++
>>
>>
>> "E Breivik" <EBrei***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:F2CBCB32-558C-4D51-A6D3-0CAD12868181@microsoft.com...
>> >I have a Dell Latitude D600 at work where I have a secondary display
>> > connected to VGA. Then I took my laptop home where I have a much
>> > bigger display and I used Word. When I tried to open Word  the next
>> > day at work it
>> > seemed to be outside the viewable area and I couldn't reach it. I
>> > had to disconnect the secondary display and reboot to be able to
>> > see the Word window. Also many of the dialog boxes of Visual Studio
>> > ended up out of reach.
>> >
>> > How can I resolve this so no windows end up outside the viewable
>> > area?
>> >
>> > Regards
>> > E Breivik
>>
>>
>>
>