photo editor problem with restore

[Guest]

When I open a jpg file ususally the program shows up on the task bar and I
have to click on the maximize option to get a screen. The option to click
on restore is grayed out. After clicking maximize I the main screen. Within
the main screen is the window with the picture. I can click the double boxes
in the upper right corner and get a reduced screen which I can stretch to
suit myself or click the single box and it will again fill the whole screen.
Hard to explain but in other words I can not change the size of the main
screen only so that I can observe another program along side such as tiling.
This problem is only in photo editor. Just upgraded to XP Home.
Thanks
Kelly
Dell 4100
40G with 19G remaining
512 RAM

 

[John Inzer]

When I open a jpg file ususally the program shows up on the task bar
and I have to click on the maximize option to get a screen. The
option to click on restore is grayed out. After clicking maximize I
the main screen. Within the main screen is the window with the
picture. I can click the double boxes in the upper right corner and
get a reduced screen which I can stretch to suit myself or click the
single box and it will again fill the whole screen. Hard to explain
but in other words I can not change the size of the main screen only
so that I can observe another program along side such as tiling. This
problem is only in photo editor. Just upgraded to XP Home.
Thanks
Kelly
Dell 4100
40G with 19G remaining
512 RAM

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I'm not certain that I understand the
question but if you right click your
Windows Taskbar you will see options
to Tile Windows Horizontally/Vertically.

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[Guest]

John, I am familiar with that area and use it all the time to have two ebay
windows tiled vertically for bidding. Works fine. You can have your bid set
up in one and browse around or refresh in the other to keep track of time.
However, I can't be totally sure but I noticed another option, "cascade
windows." I really don't know what it is for but when I clicked on it my
problem seemed to be solved.
Thanks
Kelly

 

[Ken Martin]

I know this is almost two years later but I'm posting this in case I
forget how I fixed it...

Today, I had the identical problem with Microsoft Photo Editor. I am
running Vista but this has happened to me before in XP. I had the
solution shown to me at that time but I forgot. Heck, Photo Editor
doesn't even come with Vista any more.

I was working on a simple crop when suddenly the Photo Editor window
that I had resized vanished off the desktop and seemed to shoot to the
right and vanish. I could not bring it back resized. Only maximized
or minimized.

I could either minimize to the taskbar or maximize full screen but I
could not restore it to a previously resized window because in that
state, it hide off the desktop. All or nothing. Rats.

Curiously, when I examined the Photo Editor task on the taskbar,
restore was grayed out. I found if I clicked on the desktop and then
re examined the task on the taskbar, suddenly the restore was not
grayed out. However, restore never worked to restored to the resized
window.

I also noticed that when I would alternatively click on the desktop
and then on the task in the taskbar, a sort of toggle would occur on
the start button, with the top and then the bottom of the start button
shading.

I tried right clicking on the task bar and trying
Cascade/Stacked/SideBySide. Photo Editor did not respond. Still all
or nothing. I tried moving the taskbar, locking and unlocking to no
avail.

Finally, I tried moving the mouse to try and snag the Photo Editor off
screen. Nope. I tried moving but I'd get the arrowed plus sign but
no Photo Editor moving with it.

I thought of uninstalling and reinstalling or deleting.

Then I thought of keyboard commands. So, I again right clicked on the
task on the taskbar. I selected move. The arrowed plus sign appeared
as before.

This time, I pressed the up arrow on the keyboard. Suddenly, Photo
Editor appeared out of no where in the middle of my desktop, properly
resized, as I had last left it before it vanished. I guess I had
activated some keyboard combination by mistake and made it move and
vanish. Anyhow, it worked. Ta Da.

 

[susin]

I have this exact same problem with Windows Media Player while running Windows Vista Home Premium and am grateful for this fix which works. Thank you I hope someone is working on fixing this Vista bug. For me the resized window vanishes off screen when the window is resized to its minimum size