New windows open in same location??

[Drew Moreland]

Being rather new to all of this, this may seem an odd question. I understand
that when XP is instructed to open a link in a new window, it randomly
selects the location for the window on the screen so multiple windows do not
hide one another.

A day or so ago, I noticed that my XP Home is opening every new window in
the same location on the screen. I can move the location to anywhere I want
to, but having done so, all subsequent new windows open in the same place.

I have done nothing significant to the system in the past few days except my
usual utilities updates and can see no reason for this change.

Is there something I can check/change to restore the previous random
placement of new windows?

XP Home, 512K RAM, 14Gb available HD, Ad-Aware, Spybot, AVAST,
SpywareBlaster

 

[David Candy]

You understand wrong. It is never to a random location. But as all programs work differently it is stupid to discussa generalities.

 

[Don Varnau]

Hi,
If you're referring to Internet Explorer windows, try this...
(No guarantees, but variations of this work with IE windows)
Open a webpage. Stretch it out to fullsize. Don't use maximize.
Choose any link on that webpage and right-click> open in a new window.
Stretch that second window out to the desired size- don't use maximize.
Misalign it slightly (the way that "cascade" would.) Close the first IE
window. Then close that second resized window.

If it's Windows Explorer we're trying to retrain... Open 3 or 4 windows and
cascade them (right-click the taskbar) then resize them. Then close them in
the order that they were opened.

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]