spider solitaire

[Guest]

In the last couple of days when I open Spider Solitaire it will only come up
full screen. Because I can't do just one thing at a time this is very
distressing to me. If I click on the square next to the X on the bar at the
top of the screen it completely minimizes the game. When I click on "restore"
in the start bar nothing happens, when I click on "Maximize" it opens full
screen again. None of my other programs are doing this so I am assuming it is
just Spider. How do I fix this problem? Did I do something to cause this?
Thanks,
Mark

 

[Jimmy S.]

Hi Mark Kruger,

Sounds like the game has to be resized as follows:

Click on Restore
Drag the window down from it's title bar
Move the mouse pointer to one of the top corners until it looks like this: <==>
Drag the corner towards the center of the window to resize it

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Mark Kruger Wrote:
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| In the last couple of days when I open Spider Solitaire it will only come up
| full screen. Because I can't do just one thing at a time this is very
| distressing to me. If I click on the square next to the X on the bar at the
| top of the screen it completely minimizes the game. When I click on "restore"
| in the start bar nothing happens, when I click on "Maximize" it opens full
| screen again. None of my other programs are doing this so I am assuming it is
| just Spider. How do I fix this problem? Did I do something to cause this?
| Thanks,
| Mark

 

[dawn]

i have the same problem as mark does with my spider solitaire. i tried to
drag it to make it smaller and it doesnt work help please thanks dawn

 

[Jimmy S.]

Hi dawn,

Let's try something different.. Place your mouse pointer over
the Title Bar where it says "Spider Solitaire" and double click.

That should restore your window size.

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Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com

Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
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dawn Wrote:
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| i have the same problem as mark does with my spider solitaire. i tried to
| drag it to make it smaller and it doesnt work help please thanks dawn
|
| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|
|| Hi Mark Kruger,
||
|| Sounds like the game has to be resized as follows:
||
||| Click on Restore
||| Drag the window down from it's title bar
||| Move the mouse pointer to one of the top corners until it looks like this: <==>
||| Drag the corner towards the center of the window to resize it
||
||
|| --
|| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||
|| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
|| MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
|| _________________________________________________________
||
|| Mark Kruger Wrote:
|| =================
||| In the last couple of days when I open Spider Solitaire it will only come up
||| full screen. Because I can't do just one thing at a time this is very
||| distressing to me. If I click on the square next to the X on the bar at the
||| top of the screen it completely minimizes the game. When I click on "restore"
||| in the start bar nothing happens, when I click on "Maximize" it opens full
||| screen again. None of my other programs are doing this so I am assuming it is
||| just Spider. How do I fix this problem? Did I do something to cause this?
||| Thanks,
||| Mark

 

[Spider Solitaire lover]

Hi,

I began having this problem a few days ago, and I have tried everything you
suggested in this thread, to no avail. Do you have any other suggestions?
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Diane

 

[culigrill]

I, too, am experiencing this problem; however, I know what I did to cause
mine. While installing a new trackball mouse, I accidentally resized my
Spider Solitaire window down to nothing. When I click "restore", I get
nothing. When I click "size" my cursor goes to the 4-way arrow, but because
it cannot find (and I cannot see) the minimized/resized window, it never
changes to the 2-way arrow where I can resize again.

Any ideas about this problem? Is there someplace to go to manually set the
window size, like you can resize a picture embedded inside a document by
right-clicking?

Thanks, Georgina

 

[Richard]

I, too, am experiencing this problem; however, I know what I did to cause
mine. While installing a new trackball mouse, I accidentally resized my
Spider Solitaire window down to nothing. When I click "restore", I get
nothing. When I click "size" my cursor goes to the 4-way arrow, but
because
it cannot find (and I cannot see) the minimized/resized window, it never
changes to the 2-way arrow where I can resize again.

Any ideas about this problem? Is there someplace to go to manually set
the
window size, like you can resize a picture embedded inside a document by
right-clicking?

Thanks, Georgina

(I was unable to resize my Spider smaller than 608 pixels wide by 446 pixels
high. How did you resize it into oblivion?

Right-click on the Spider's task bar icon at the bottom of your screen.
Choose Restore, if it is not grayed-out.
Right-click again and choose Size. (Never mind what the cursor looks like.)
Use your bottom and right arrow KEYS to enlarge it, and press Enter to
complete that operation. If it is still not visible, right-click taskbar
icon again, choose Size, and use your up and left arrow keys to enlarge it
the other way.

Another thing to check is the shortcut on the Start Menu. Find the shortcut
in the Start menu folder.
Right-click (Start) button, and "Open" or "Open all Users". Then open
sub-folder Programs, and sub-folder Games. Right-click the Spider shortcut,
choose Properties, choose Shortcut tab. Under "Run:" it should say "Normal
window". If it does not, change it. If it does, try changing it to
Maximized. (Click OK to save changes.

If none of that works, you can try re-installing the game, from
Start|Settings|Control Panel - Add/Remove programs - Add/Remove Windows
components - Accessories and Utilities - Details - Games - Details - Uncheck
"Spider Solitaire" - click OK. Re-checkmark Spider and OK to re-install it.

That's all I can think of, (except for Sparky's cure all: Die-No-Might!
--Richard



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