Pop up windows always too large, cannot resize

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William Relton

Hi. Whenever a pop up opens in IE6 it fills the screen,
often overlapping the task bar. I cannot resize them. The
restore option is not available. I cannot resize them
using the resize tool on the frame. It is really boring
and I can do nothing about it. Please help as it's
driving me nuts. I am running XP home on a new, pretty
powerful machine.

Thanks
 
If you right-click the button on the taskbar, is "size" one of the options?
If it is, use the arrow keys to resize the window. Close other IE windows,
close that resized window last.

Another possible fix. Close all other windows, right-click on the taskbar
and choose Tile Vertically (Horizontally should also work.)

Or... with only the affected window open (and the taskbar NOT set to
autohide)
grab the top of the taskbar and pull it up to twice its normal height. Then
close the window, resize the taskbar, reopen the window.

Or... Another possible fix from http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/ietips.htm
When all else fails, paste the below line into Start | Run

javascript:window.open(screen.availWidth,screen.availHeight)

Note: then make sure the above window is the last one closed.

Or (a registry edit)
Q194759 - New Internet Explorer Window Opens Partially Off the Screen:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q194/7/59.asp

Hope this helps,
Don
 
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