Persistent resizing of windows

[Guest]

Oh knowledgeable ones,

I have recently bought a new laptop with preinstalled version of Vista
(v6.0). I am experiencing a persistent issue where the window is resizing to
full page or back when clicking the scroll bar or the exit button.

It looks like a general issue as it effects IE, Firefox, MS Media Player. I
am sure the problem is getting worse

Is this a know issue? and is there a fix available, one in the pipeline ?

M

 

[Cat]

Oh knowledgeable ones,

I have recently bought a new laptop with preinstalled version of Vista
(v6.0). I am experiencing a persistent issue where the window is resizing to
full page or back when clicking the scroll bar or the exit button.

It looks like a general issue as it effects IE, Firefox, MS Media Player. I
am sure the problem is getting worse

Is this a know issue? and is there a fix available, one in the pipeline ?

M

I don't understand what exactly you're describing is, but I don't
think that's
general problem, since I have never encounterd with those problems. It
might
be some kind of miss configuration or some 3rd party add-ons or
applications
that causing it.

 

[Guest]

Thank you cat,

If you had encountered it you WOULD know about it, its a pain. Imagine
closing the window and the page resizing to full screen, try close again and
it switches back to the original size. It is the same with clicking on other
areas of the page. It drives you mad.

However I think have narrowed it down.

I think it might be the touch pad driver for my Toshiba Laptop. I have
noticed if I use the left button to click instead of double tapping the pad
the problem apears to go away....... for the past 30 minutes anyway.

M

 

[Guest]

This same issue has been driving me nuts for the past week. I finally found
the answer on another post: The problem is "zones" on the touchpad. I'm
betting you have a toshiba satellite. To fix it, go into control panel/mouse
look for the device settings tab. on that window, you can adjust the size,
position, and action of the various zones on your touchpad - particularly
shutting off the window resizing. What the heck were they thinking when they
set that as a default?!!

 

[Guest]

Same deal with me. Toshiba Laptop with random resizing of windows on all
programs and pages when touching the scroll bar. Toshiba support tried to
walk me through two poss. fixes. one was unistalling the Synaptics Pointing
Device which reinstalls automatically on restart. second, we tried updating
the driver for the same device from the Toshiba site, from like version 6.2
to 9.0. Neither action did diddly for the performance issue. The tech guy
was advising next to reload my system software, thus losing everything on my
comp. Not gonna go that route. wouldn't be prudent at this juncture. I'm
going to try the advice of the above post and see where that leads.

If anyone knows of a resolution to this VERY frustrating dilemma or to
exhange info on the subject, then email me at (e-mail address removed)

 

[Guest]

OK. This is me replying to my last post. I went into the control panel and
selected mouse, then device settings, then settings, then - where do i go and
what do i reconfigure? I'm assuming that i have to deselect the commands for
the various tap zones. Like, Bottom Right Action = Minimize the current
window - should be changed to: No Zone (Normal Select, Normal Drag) and so
forth for both bottoms and both Tops. I'm going to try that.

Is that all, or is there more to be done under Tap Zone Sizes and Scrolling
Region?
Please illuminate.

Funny thing is that i went back to Best Buy with this issue and they had no
clue, but the woman behind me in line had the same probem with the same make
and model. She gave me her number and I shall pass on to her whatever I
learn here. Thanks again.

 

[Cheryl D Wise]

If it is the touchpad driver to remove it permanently first uninstall the
program from Control Panel | Programs. After you reboot go to Device Manager
(System Properties) and look to see if the proprietary driver reloaded. If
so use the "remove driver" button and when the confirmation box comes up
check the box that says to delete the driver. When you reboot the generic
Windows driver should be used instead of the Toshiba provided one.

 

[Guest]

tHANKS. But, I went ahead and did what i said i was going to try and it
completely worked. now, in retrospect it makes complete sense because the
touchpad was picking up commands that should never have been set there as the
default settings. If anything, those specialized touch pad settings should
have been under an advanced setting option. now i have no wacky happenings
when i touch the scroll bars. thanks anyway for responding.

 

[Guest]

Thanks v much for sharing this - worked for me too, and a lot easier than
re-installing Vista which was someone else's suggestion. Cheers!

 

[Hiccups]

Cerebraljazz85: Thank you, thank you, thank you!! This has been driving me
Nuts! Don't think I would have ever figured it out if I didn't find your
post!

Cheers!