Windows & IE7 not opening or displaying properly

[Guest]

Hello Guys n Gals, and in the words of the immortal Spencer Davis Group:
Can somebody help me
Can somebody help me now
Won’t somebody tell me what I’ve done wrong?

And if anyone here can remember that song, you must be as old as I am…!

My windows are playing up…
In the last two days, when out on the net, many of the site windows have
been too big for the browser and the scroll bars have been quite evident. The
text has been a bit basic on older sites and not quite as slick as I’m
currently used to…! also some of the text is slightly integrating!
I thought this was just on the net, but today I emptied out restore point
and re-set it and the window for restore point is the same…!
Restore point has always shown the full picture whenever I’ve used it
before, but today there were scroll bars down and sideways…? Oh! And by the
way, I cannot grab the sides, bottom or corner to adjust the window size…!
Now, this is not throughout the machine. I’m writing this in a quite normal
Word doc, and have just used Notepad quite normally also. Outlook is behaving
properly. And so are folders.
I’m on XP Pro sp2 & sp3 (Build 2600) 512 with 60Gb usable Hd, 2.80 gig Intel
Pentium 4, 8 kilobyte primary memory cache. No guests or other users. NVIDIA
GeForce FX 5200 [Display adapter] 17†Default Monitor; I just used Belarc to
gain that info, and whilst in the latest scan, checked the updates list where
three were not ticked…
Having researched each one, I had to delete one and re-Update which bore no
returns.
There was a couple of custom and I downloaded one KB leaving the Win Media
Player which I don’t particularly use.
Whilst out there, I opened IE7 with http://info.prevx.com/ and Maxthon
browser with same url
Maxthon gave me this page correctly as I am now used to seeing, but IE7 gave
it back with a larger page and scroll bars. I also checked Restore Point
again, and found the same reduced [or is it enlarged] window size…!

Can somebody help me and tell me where I've gone wrong…?

Thanx in Advance
And thanx to Carey Fischer if your on this station!

Lou Gascon

 

[Guest]

Hello Guys n Gals, and in the words of the immortal Spencer Davis Group:
Can somebody help me
Can somebody help me now
Won’t somebody tell me what I’ve done wrong?

And if anyone here can remember that song, you must be as old as I am…!

My windows are playing up…
In the last two days, when out on the net, many of the site windows have
been too big for the browser and the scroll bars have been quite evident. The
text has been a bit basic on older sites and not quite as slick as I’m
currently used to…! also some of the text is slightly integrating!
I thought this was just on the net, but today I emptied out restore point
and re-set it and the window for restore point is the same…!
Restore point has always shown the full picture whenever I’ve used it
before, but today there were scroll bars down and sideways…? Oh! And by the
way, I cannot grab the sides, bottom or corner to adjust the window size…!
Now, this is not throughout the machine. I’m writing this in a quite normal
Word doc, and have just used Notepad quite normally also. Outlook is behaving
properly. And so are folders.
I’m on XP Pro sp2 & sp3 (Build 2600) 512 with 60Gb usable Hd, 2.80 gig Intel
Pentium 4, 8 kilobyte primary memory cache. No guests or other users. NVIDIA
GeForce FX 5200 [Display adapter] 17†Default Monitor; I just used Belarc to
gain that info, and whilst in the latest scan, checked the updates list where
three were not ticked…
Having researched each one, I had to delete one and re-Update which bore no
returns.
There was a couple of custom and I downloaded one KB leaving the Win Media
Player which I don’t particularly use.
Whilst out there, I opened IE7 with http://info.prevx.com/ and Maxthon
browser with same url
Maxthon gave me this page correctly as I am now used to seeing, but IE7 gave
it back with a larger page and scroll bars. I also checked Restore Point
again, and found the same reduced [or is it enlarged] window size…!

Can somebody help me and tell me where I've gone wrong…?

Thanx in Advance
And thanx to Carey Fischer if your on this station!

Lou Gascon

IE7? Isn't that packaged with Vista?

 

[Guest]

No! IE7 was offered as its own entity at Ms since the 20th of March, and with
its tabbed browser and RSS feed, I feel it rather rocks...
However, I've since tried Maxthon, and this rocks too...
But I've yet to try Tablane...!
Thanx for the question to the new prince of darkness, but that didn't answer
mine...
Lou

Hello Guys n Gals, and in the words of the immortal Spencer Davis Group:
Can somebody help me
Can somebody help me now
Won’t somebody tell me what I’ve done wrong?

And if anyone here can remember that song, you must be as old as I am…!

My windows are playing up…
In the last two days, when out on the net, many of the site windows have
been too big for the browser and the scroll bars have been quite evident. The
text has been a bit basic on older sites and not quite as slick as I’m
currently used to…! also some of the text is slightly integrating!
I thought this was just on the net, but today I emptied out restore point
and re-set it and the window for restore point is the same…!
Restore point has always shown the full picture whenever I’ve used it
before, but today there were scroll bars down and sideways…? Oh! And by the
way, I cannot grab the sides, bottom or corner to adjust the window size…!
Now, this is not throughout the machine. I’m writing this in a quite normal
Word doc, and have just used Notepad quite normally also. Outlook is behaving
properly. And so are folders.
I’m on XP Pro sp2 & sp3 (Build 2600) 512 with 60Gb usable Hd, 2.80 gig Intel
Pentium 4, 8 kilobyte primary memory cache. No guests or other users. NVIDIA
GeForce FX 5200 [Display adapter] 17†Default Monitor; I just used Belarc to
gain that info, and whilst in the latest scan, checked the updates list where
three were not ticked…
Having researched each one, I had to delete one and re-Update which bore no
returns.
There was a couple of custom and I downloaded one KB leaving the Win Media
Player which I don’t particularly use.
Whilst out there, I opened IE7 with http://info.prevx.com/ and Maxthon
browser with same url
Maxthon gave me this page correctly as I am now used to seeing, but IE7 gave
it back with a larger page and scroll bars. I also checked Restore Point
again, and found the same reduced [or is it enlarged] window size…!

Can somebody help me and tell me where I've gone wrong…?

Thanx in Advance
And thanx to Carey Fischer if your on this station!

Lou Gascon

IE7? Isn't that packaged with Vista?

 

[Guest]

Sunday 16.04.06 - Further to my original question:
Today I have opened: http://safety.live.com/site/en-US/default.htm in all
three browsers, all set at exactly the same reduced size on my monitor.
Maxthon shows this great site in a tidy and centralised position in the
browser with the [Full Service Scan] button clearly visible at the bottom of
the screen with 4mm of clear space before the bottom bar. There is a scroll
bar on the right for scrolling to the end of the page.
Firefox shows virtually, exactly the same…
Explorer is showing the page as larger than the screen size available with a
scroll bar at the bottom for scrolling to the right of page. The [Full
Service Scan] button is not visible, just the text above the button and the
scroll to the right is a full 30mm…? The Windows Live logo heading and URL is
pixilised with double vision, and the heading text ‘Get full service for your
PC’ is bolder than the other two and more ugly…!
Next, I maximized all three windows…
Maxthon shows the site fully centralised and virtually on one page with a
30mm scroll down to the bottom of the page. The page looks clean & slick and
everything is in place…
Firefox shows virtually, exactly the same…
Explorer again is showing the page as larger than the screen size available
with a scroll bar at the bottom for scrolling to the right of page by around
50mm. And the scroll to the bottom of page is at least 50mm. As above, The
Windows Live logo heading and URL is pixilised with double vision, and the
heading text ‘Get full service for your PC’ is bolder than the other two and
more ugly…! Even the advertisement to learn more about the reading pane from
MSN has scroll bars down and sideways, whilst the other two do not, and offer
the ad as intended as a square ID box. Finally, if I click the curser in the
text under ‘Get full service for your PC’ the text moves about slightly from
side to side…! Strange behaviour…!
On other sites, the url’s at the end of a line of text are running into the
end of the text and url’s set in the middle of a line of text are running
into the next word in that line of text…!
And yes, Restore point window is still the same as before…
Have we got a techie there who can sort me out…?
Till then…

Hello Guys n Gals, and in the words of the immortal Spencer Davis Group:
Can somebody help me
Can somebody help me now
Won’t somebody tell me what I’ve done wrong?

And if anyone here can remember that song, you must be as old as I am…!

My windows are playing up…
In the last two days, when out on the net, many of the site windows have
been too big for the browser and the scroll bars have been quite evident. The
text has been a bit basic on older sites and not quite as slick as I’m
currently used to…! also some of the text is slightly integrating!
I thought this was just on the net, but today I emptied out restore point
and re-set it and the window for restore point is the same…!
Restore point has always shown the full picture whenever I’ve used it
before, but today there were scroll bars down and sideways…? Oh! And by the
way, I cannot grab the sides, bottom or corner to adjust the window size…!
Now, this is not throughout the machine. I’m writing this in a quite normal
Word doc, and have just used Notepad quite normally also. Outlook is behaving
properly. And so are folders.
I’m on XP Pro sp2 & sp3 (Build 2600) 512 with 60Gb usable Hd, 2.80 gig Intel
Pentium 4, 8 kilobyte primary memory cache. No guests or other users. NVIDIA
GeForce FX 5200 [Display adapter] 17†Default Monitor; I just used Belarc to
gain that info, and whilst in the latest scan, checked the updates list where
three were not ticked…
Having researched each one, I had to delete one and re-Update which bore no
returns.
There was a couple of custom and I downloaded one KB leaving the Win Media
Player which I don’t particularly use.
Whilst out there, I opened IE7 with http://info.prevx.com/ and Maxthon
browser with same url
Maxthon gave me this page correctly as I am now used to seeing, but IE7 gave
it back with a larger page and scroll bars. I also checked Restore Point
again, and found the same reduced [or is it enlarged] window size…!

Can somebody help me and tell me where I've gone wrong…?

Thanx in Advance
And thanx to Carey Fischer if your on this station!

Lou Gascon

 

[David Candy]

The page has some wierd formatting in it. There is an IFrame 1000px above the top of the page and to the left.

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Sunday 16.04.06 - Further to my original question:
Today I have opened: http://safety.live.com/site/en-US/default.htm in all
three browsers, all set at exactly the same reduced size on my monitor.
Maxthon shows this great site in a tidy and centralised position in the
browser with the [Full Service Scan] button clearly visible at the bottom of
the screen with 4mm of clear space before the bottom bar. There is a scroll
bar on the right for scrolling to the end of the page.
Firefox shows virtually, exactly the same…
Explorer is showing the page as larger than the screen size available with a
scroll bar at the bottom for scrolling to the right of page. The [Full
Service Scan] button is not visible, just the text above the button and the
scroll to the right is a full 30mm…? The Windows Live logo heading and URL is
pixilised with double vision, and the heading text ‘Get full service for your
PC’ is bolder than the other two and more ugly…!
Next, I maximized all three windows…
Maxthon shows the site fully centralised and virtually on one page with a
30mm scroll down to the bottom of the page. The page looks clean & slick and
everything is in place…
Firefox shows virtually, exactly the same…
Explorer again is showing the page as larger than the screen size available
with a scroll bar at the bottom for scrolling to the right of page by around
50mm. And the scroll to the bottom of page is at least 50mm. As above, The
Windows Live logo heading and URL is pixilised with double vision, and the
heading text ‘Get full service for your PC’ is bolder than the other two and
more ugly…! Even the advertisement to learn more about the reading pane from
MSN has scroll bars down and sideways, whilst the other two do not, and offer
the ad as intended as a square ID box. Finally, if I click the curser in the
text under ‘Get full service for your PC’ the text moves about slightly from
side to side…! Strange behaviour…!
On other sites, the url’s at the end of a line of text are running into the
end of the text and url’s set in the middle of a line of text are running
into the next word in that line of text…!
And yes, Restore point window is still the same as before…
Have we got a techie there who can sort me out…?
Till then…

Hello Guys n Gals, and in the words of the immortal Spencer Davis Group:
Can somebody help me
Can somebody help me now
Won’t somebody tell me what I’ve done wrong?

And if anyone here can remember that song, you must be as old as I am…!

My windows are playing up…
In the last two days, when out on the net, many of the site windows have
been too big for the browser and the scroll bars have been quite evident. The
text has been a bit basic on older sites and not quite as slick as I’m
currently used to…! also some of the text is slightly integrating!
I thought this was just on the net, but today I emptied out restore point
and re-set it and the window for restore point is the same…!
Restore point has always shown the full picture whenever I’ve used it
before, but today there were scroll bars down and sideways…? Oh! And by the
way, I cannot grab the sides, bottom or corner to adjust the window size…!
Now, this is not throughout the machine. I’m writing this in a quite normal
Word doc, and have just used Notepad quite normally also. Outlook is behaving
properly. And so are folders.
I’m on XP Pro sp2 & sp3 (Build 2600) 512 with 60Gb usable Hd, 2.80 gig Intel
Pentium 4, 8 kilobyte primary memory cache. No guests or other users. NVIDIA
GeForce FX 5200 [Display adapter] 17†Default Monitor; I just used Belarc to
gain that info, and whilst in the latest scan, checked the updates list where
three were not ticked…
Having researched each one, I had to delete one and re-Update which bore no
returns.
There was a couple of custom and I downloaded one KB leaving the Win Media
Player which I don’t particularly use.
Whilst out there, I opened IE7 with http://info.prevx.com/ and Maxthon
browser with same url
Maxthon gave me this page correctly as I am now used to seeing, but IE7 gave
it back with a larger page and scroll bars. I also checked Restore Point
again, and found the same reduced [or is it enlarged] window size…!

Can somebody help me and tell me where I've gone wrong…?

Thanx in Advance
And thanx to Carey Fischer if your on this station!

Lou Gascon