Dialog & Window Size on Open...

[Guest]

I recently had to restore from backup after a disaster, and most everything
made it back okay, with a couple of notable exceptions. The one that's
bothering me the most is the default size for dialogs and windows when an
application opens. All my new windows open reduced to the smallest size
possible on the first load. Resizing fixes the problem for an application,
but dialogs don't necessarily get their sizes saved and so I have to do a lot
of resizing with those. My question is where in the registry are the settings
for default dialog and window size? Obviously that section didn't restore
correctly and I'd like to fix it without doing a total tear down of the OS,
as that would require a lot of reinstalls and down time.

Thanks in advacnce for any help you can give.

Yours,

Benjamin A. SLack

 

[Mark V]

I recently had to restore from backup after a disaster, and most
everything made it back okay, with a couple of notable exceptions.
The one that's bothering me the most is the default size for
dialogs and windows when an application opens. All my new windows
open reduced to the smallest size possible on the first load.
Resizing fixes the problem for an application, but dialogs don't
necessarily get their sizes saved and so I have to do a lot of
resizing with those. My question is where in the registry are the
settings for default dialog and window size? Obviously that
section didn't restore correctly and I'd like to fix it without
doing a total tear down of the OS, as that would require a lot of
reinstalls and down time.

You might monitor the registry with Sysinternals REGMON to find them.
Likely these are cryptic binary values such as
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
\StreamMRU\ ...
and
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
\Streams\ ...
or similar.