Why cannot system dialogs be resizable?

[Don Leckie]

Hello,

There are many Windows XP small dialogs for entering long strings, but they
are not resizable. For example, I want to edit the System Environment
variable PATH. The tiny dialog is useless. I need to copy the text to a
text editor, make my changes, then paste it back into the tiny dialog. This
is ridiculous for a modern advanced OS.

Thank you,
Don

 

[Jack Handey]

I didn't see a question mark anywhere in this post. Did you have a question
or did you just feel like ranting?

 

[Nepatsfan]

Hello,

There are many Windows XP small dialogs for entering long
strings, but they are not resizable. For example, I want to
edit the System Environment variable PATH. The tiny dialog
is useless. I need to copy the text to a text editor, make
my changes, then paste it back into the tiny dialog. This
is ridiculous for a modern advanced OS.
Thank you,
Don

You might want to download this program:

http://www.digitallis.co.uk/pc/ResizeEnable/

Take a look at the ResizeEnable.txt file for instructions on
how to use the utility.

Nepatsfan