how to increase the border between opened windows

[Dave Horne]

I'm using the Windows Mail that came with Vista Home Premium (Sp1).

How does one increase the border between windows in Mail? The thickness of
the border seems to be one or two pixels wide and it's a real pain to zero
in on the correct place to resize a window. If this is a common question
that has already been answered, forgive me.

Thanks in advance, Dave Horne

 

[mac]

I'm using the Windows Mail that came with Vista Home Premium (Sp1).

How does one increase the border between windows in Mail? The thickness
of the border seems to be one or two pixels wide and it's a real pain to
zero in on the correct place to resize a window. If this is a common
question that has already been answered, forgive me.

Thanks in advance, Dave Horne

Not quite sure of the "border between windows" that you are referring to?

Let me guess, do you mean when viewing mail in the Preview Pane?
Top & bottom windows.

If so go to view menu>layout>enable preview pane header.

If I guessed wrong please be a little more specific in your reply.

 

[Dave Horne]

Not quite sure of the "border between windows" that you are referring to?

Let me guess, do you mean when viewing mail in the Preview Pane?
Top & bottom windows.

If so go to view menu>layout>enable preview pane header.

If I guessed wrong please be a little more specific in your reply.

Steve, sorry for not being more clear in my original post. The Preview Pane
Header (I checked and unchecked it), while giving slightly more information,
does nothing to increase the border thickness. I'm not only talking about
the horizontal border between the message subject header and the contents of
the message, but also the vertical border separating the messages from the
list of folders which I have on the left.

The border thickness (and I'm running 1680 x 1050 on a wide 20" screen) is
just too thin to grab the first time around. Is there a registry hack to
this? I cannot find any option to increase the border thickness anywhere in
the program. I resize the windows almost every time I use Mail and this has
been a constant irritation to me.

I remember in Windows 3.1 or Windows 98, one could globally increase the
border thickness. (That also could have been Norton Desktop as well.)

Any ideas? Thanks, DH

 

[mac]

Steve, sorry for not being more clear in my original post. The Preview
Pane Header (I checked and unchecked it), while giving slightly more
information, does nothing to increase the border thickness. I'm not only
talking about the horizontal border between the message subject header and
the contents of the message, but also the vertical border separating the
messages from the list of folders which I have on the left.

The border thickness (and I'm running 1680 x 1050 on a wide 20" screen) is
just too thin to grab the first time around. Is there a registry hack to
this? I cannot find any option to increase the border thickness anywhere
in the program. I resize the windows almost every time I use Mail and
this has been a constant irritation to me.

I remember in Windows 3.1 or Windows 98, one could globally increase the
border thickness. (That also could have been Norton Desktop as well.)

Any ideas? Thanks, DH

I do not know of any such regedit in Vista.

It was bugged repeatedly in the beta of WM, to no avail.

Then half way through the beta, 2006, MS decided to move away from WM and
put all its efforts into WLM.
So we all got "a bug ridden WM" with our new Vista.

The thickness of the border is just the same in WLM, and thus difficult to
grab.

Personally, I do not use the folder list on the left, I prefer the "folder
bar", it releases some screen view, clicking on that gives me the folder
list when I need it.

 

[Dave Horne]

I do not know of any such regedit in Vista.

It was bugged repeatedly in the beta of WM, to no avail.

Then half way through the beta, 2006, MS decided to move away from WM and
put all its efforts into WLM.
So we all got "a bug ridden WM" with our new Vista.

The thickness of the border is just the same in WLM, and thus difficult to
grab.

Personally, I do not use the folder list on the left, I prefer the "folder
bar", it releases some screen view, clicking on that gives me the folder
list when I need it.

OK. Thanks for your help just the same.

Dave Horne

 

[Steve Cochran]

You can right click on the Desktop and choose to Personalize and then change
the DPI. I don't know if that will change the width of the separators or
not.

steve