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A quiz, about window positioning
1. Lots of program windows on the start menu, set up in a particular
way. 2. You swap video cards. 3. Plug it back together and start up. 4. Windows defaults to low resolution and totally messes up window positions. 5. After the system settles down, Windows changes to a high resolution. But all of your window positions are still messed up. 6. What do you do??? Answer below. Press the Reset button! Wait for the system to settle down and then use Reset. Windows forgets any changes to window positions. Therefore you come back with all your old and correct window positions. Yes, there are other ways of swabbing a video card without messing up window positions, but that requires foresight... |
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A quiz, about window positioning
John Doe wrote:
1. Lots of program windows on the start menu, set up in a particular way. 2. You swap video cards. 3. Plug it back together and start up. 4. Windows defaults to low resolution and totally messes up window positions. 5. After the system settles down, Windows changes to a high resolution. But all of your window positions are still messed up. 6. What do you do??? Answer below. Sure, don't swap video cards. There is a simple reason why it happens. When you swap a card it uses a different driver. Windows first loads the generic low resolution VGA driver. Lower resolution and lack of multi-monitor support *must* change windows positions otherwise windows may "appear" off screen and unreachable. (I have had this happen when MS Word decided to load in a non-existent 2nd monitor when I lost a monitor once...) Then after Windows finds and installs correct driver you get your full resolution. How would Windows know what your previous setting were if the windows moved? How would is differentiate a new window position because it had to move to stay on screen from you the user moving it? If application stores them in registry as some do then the simple answer is don't launch them until *after* the new driver is installed and your monitor is back to full resolution. Press the Reset button! Wait for the system to settle down and then use Reset. Windows forgets any changes to window positions. Therefore you come back with all your old and correct window positions. Yes, there are other ways of swabbing a video card without messing up window positions, but that requires foresight... IMO pressing the Reset button is not a preferred method. -- Take care, Jonathan ------------------- LITTLE WORKS STUDIO http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com |
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A quiz, about window positioning
The subject has nothing to do with WHY Windows changes window
positions. Nobody needs to know why, there is no way to change that behavior, given the circumstance. Any idiot would know better than to suggest "don't swap video cards" when the argument assumes swapping video cards is done for a reason. The feeble attempt at an alternative "pressing the Reset button is not a preferred method" is less than half-baked. A moronic troll... -- "Jonathan N. Little" lws4art gmail.com wrote: Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Jonathan N. Little" lws4art gmail.com Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-10 Subject: A quiz, about window positioning Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2018 15:43:19 -0400 Organization: LITTLE WORKS STUDIO Lines: 56 Message-ID: p8bu0p$g2n$1 dont-email.me References: p8bjo9$9d$1 dont-email.me Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2018 19:43:21 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="2bb07e4b4f627d695f8cfcb3a7b7f67c"; logging-data="16471"; mail-complaints-to="abuse eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19nzSm5JrvjkzGfrNtNFkMZ+S0AprYmk hA=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0 SeaMonkey/2.49.2 In-Reply-To: p8bjo9$9d$1 dont-email.me X-Dan: Yes Dan this is a Winbox X-Face: o[H8T0h*NGH`K`P)s+4PmYlcy|GNl`~+L6Fi.m:%15m[c%{C7V-ump|WiCYPkQ+hFJhq;XW5^1Rg_El'"fE$~AcYW$Pq\yeh9K_-dJqlQ5\y2\;[yw5DYCtOtsf_.TUy}0U\oL^[3Y#{AP2^o'bG`bwj`]]UNpCxY\(~xK9b+uZKxrb*4-rkD+ Cancel-Lock: sha1Z0nhdgLC/e8Ld+d1AEdKHH3Jk0= Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org alt.comp.os.windows-10:65371 John Doe wrote: 1. Lots of program windows on the start menu, set up in a particular way. 2. You swap video cards. 3. Plug it back together and start up. 4. Windows defaults to low resolution and totally messes up window positions. 5. After the system settles down, Windows changes to a high resolution. But all of your window positions are still messed up. 6. What do you do??? Answer below. Sure, don't swap video cards. There is a simple reason why it happens. When you swap a card it uses a different driver. Windows first loads the generic low resolution VGA driver. Lower resolution and lack of multi-monitor support *must* change windows positions otherwise windows may "appear" off screen and unreachable. (I have had this happen when MS Word decided to load in a non-existent 2nd monitor when I lost a monitor once...) Then after Windows finds and installs correct driver you get your full resolution. How would Windows know what your previous setting were if the windows moved? How would is differentiate a new window position because it had to move to stay on screen from you the user moving it? If application stores them in registry as some do then the simple answer is don't launch them until *after* the new driver is installed and your monitor is back to full resolution. Press the Reset button! Wait for the system to settle down and then use Reset. Windows forgets any changes to window positions. Therefore you come back with all your old and correct window positions. Yes, there are other ways of swabbing a video card without messing up window positions, but that requires foresight... IMO pressing the Reset button is not a preferred method. -- Take care, Jonathan ------------------- LITTLE WORKS STUDIO http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com |
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A quiz, about window positioning
John Doe kirjoitti 14.03.2018 klo 18.48:
1. Lots of program windows on the start menu, set up in a particular way. 2. You swap video cards. 3. Plug it back together and start up. 4. Windows defaults to low resolution and totally messes up window positions. 5. After the system settles down, Windows changes to a high resolution. But all of your window positions are still messed up. 6. What do you do??? Answer below. This might help?+ Desktop Save and Restore by JOConnell http://www.midiox.com/index.htm?http...toprestore.htm I have it my Win10 system (2 monitors 1920*1080 + 4k TV as 3rd display) -- ----------------------------------------------------- Thomas Wendell Helsinki, Finland Translation to/from FI/SWE not always accurate ----------------------------------------------------- |
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A quiz, about window positioning
I made an editing mistake.
I should have said something like... 1. Lots of windows coming from programs on the start menu, set up in a particular way. But intelligent people can figure it out from the context. -- "James Wilkinson Sword" wrote: On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 16:48:10 -0000, John Doe wrote: 1. Lots of program windows on the start menu, set up in a particular way. You've lost me already. I have icons on my start menu. Windows don't go on menus. 2. You swap video cards. 3. Plug it back together and start up. 4. Windows defaults to low resolution and totally messes up window positions. 5. After the system settles down, Windows changes to a high resolution. But all of your window positions are still messed up. 6. What do you do??? Answer below. Press the Reset button! Wait for the system to settle down and then use Reset. Windows forgets any changes to window positions. Therefore you come back with all your old and correct window positions. Yes, there are other ways of swabbing a video card without messing up window positions, but that requires foresight... |
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A quiz, about window positioning
tumppiw wrote:
John Doe kirjoitti: 1. Lots of programs on the start menu, set to display in a particular way. 2. You swap video cards. 3. Plug it back together and start up. 4. Windows defaults to low resolution and totally messes up window positions. 5. After the system settles down, Windows changes to a high resolution. But all of your window positions are still messed up. 6. What do you do??? Answer below. This might help?+ Desktop Save and Restore by JOConnell http://www.midiox.com/index.htm? http://www.midiox.com/desktoprestore.htm I have it my Win10 system (2 monitors 1920*1080 + 4k TV as 3rd display) The last window (of a given set) you close is the way that type of window will open next time. In other words... All WordPad windows will open the way you closed the last WordPad window. A utility that places windows here and there might allow for different positioning of same type windows, if you are into that. |
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