Moving windows with mouse in Vista

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Augustin Varnav

Hello,
I recently encountered a problem in Vista when I tried to move a window on
the screen with the mouse.
When I click the title bar, my screen gets divided in three parts, one for
the upper half and two in the other half and, instead of moving the window,
the system puts it in one of these places. Then, I can only mive the window
from one place to another, is like a snap-to-grid function.
The only way for me to just move the window is to right-click the title bar
and to choose the "move" command.
I don't know how can I deactivate this snap-to-grid function, I found no
reference of it in no place. It doesn't occur with each window, rarely with
main windows and almost every time with dependent windows.
Thank you very much for your help!
 
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Augustin Varnav

Hi,
Oh no, it is not that simple. Look, there is a screen capture with the
"phenomenon". The way it splits is not characteristic for the stacked or
side-by-side windows and, moreover, is not systematic.
http://www.lexdata.ro/tzuki/capture-ecran.jpg
The picture is not edited. The red frame is the "active" destination of the
window. The other two blue frames are the other options available.
If I choose the Move command from the context menu I manage to move the
window, but then, if I just click on the title bar, the window takes
automatically the shape of the "active" frame.
BitDefender shows no virus activity, so I guess either this is a parameter I
don't know how to set or it's a bug.
What do you say?
 
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Augustin Varnav

Nope, my Vista installation is pretty fresh, and I tried to use as much as
possible the functionnalities offered within instead of installing third
party applications (I don't even have Winamp, for that matter). I already had
compatibility problems on this system between some utilities for the video
card (Asus ATI EAH3870) and Photoshop CS4, so I am very carefull with the
software I bring in.
I checked to see if the video driver offers me some options in this regard,
but no. All drivers are updated, including mouse.
Best wishes,
Augustin
 
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Rick Rogers

Hi,

Well, I've not seen anything like that occur before, so I'm thinking it's
due to some issue between software installed on your system and the video
drivers. Did the occurence of this problem coincide with anything that you
installed or updated?

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
 
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Augustin Varnav

I really cannot associate this behaviour with something I installed. The
Photoshop issue was solved long time ago (few weeks), then I had an issue
with mouse pointer freezing upon resume from sleep, uninstalled-reinstalled
mouse drivers, freezing persisted, then disapeared after few more days...
I also changed the display language from FR to EN (my Vista is French from
Belgium), it was the last thing I did before the framing issue surfaces,
although the English language pack was installed long time ago.
Now I feel like in Twilight Zone. Who knows, maybe it will fix itself, like
the mouse :)
Thank you for all your help and time.
 

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