Running Windows 7 Pro on a Lenovo T520
I've read quite a few posts saying that this doesn't happen for whoever... Well, it happens to me.
As back story, in Win XP Pro I very often slid a window quickly off to one side - almost off the laptop screen - while I made some quick change in another window - then moved it back and went on about my business. I much prefer this over messing around with tabs on such a small screen.
In Win 7 Pro if I slide a window off screen it may stay where I put it or it may pop into full screen and jump right back to front and center. If I hold the left click button and quickly move it back onto the main part of the screen, the full screen version will revert to whatever it was before. During all this, some "frames" (white _outlines only_ of windows on the existing background) appear - where the system is apparently preparing to put the window (full or not) next, based on whether the cursor remains or moves elsewhere - upon which the whole scene of window outlines changes and either disappears or goes to another place onscreen - partial or full.
Of particular note, less (or none) of this happens unless the cursor touches (or nears?) a screen edge.
On a previous version of of Win 7 there was mention of some exotic sounding window software (no I can't remember the name and the computer is down and out) and the theatrics were even more impressive/irritating.
Windows 7 Pro has something unusual going on about screen windows handling. If anyone knows what it is and what can be done about it I'd be thrilled to hear about it. If you have never seen any of this behavior, I hope you won't feel it necessary to post that info here.
probo
I've read quite a few posts saying that this doesn't happen for whoever... Well, it happens to me.
As back story, in Win XP Pro I very often slid a window quickly off to one side - almost off the laptop screen - while I made some quick change in another window - then moved it back and went on about my business. I much prefer this over messing around with tabs on such a small screen.
In Win 7 Pro if I slide a window off screen it may stay where I put it or it may pop into full screen and jump right back to front and center. If I hold the left click button and quickly move it back onto the main part of the screen, the full screen version will revert to whatever it was before. During all this, some "frames" (white _outlines only_ of windows on the existing background) appear - where the system is apparently preparing to put the window (full or not) next, based on whether the cursor remains or moves elsewhere - upon which the whole scene of window outlines changes and either disappears or goes to another place onscreen - partial or full.
Of particular note, less (or none) of this happens unless the cursor touches (or nears?) a screen edge.
On a previous version of of Win 7 there was mention of some exotic sounding window software (no I can't remember the name and the computer is down and out) and the theatrics were even more impressive/irritating.
Windows 7 Pro has something unusual going on about screen windows handling. If anyone knows what it is and what can be done about it I'd be thrilled to hear about it. If you have never seen any of this behavior, I hope you won't feel it necessary to post that info here.
probo
My Computer
- Computer type
- Laptop
- OS
- win 7 pro 64
