Win7 Shrink the image not change the resolution

[loninappleton]

How can this happen? I have one program that is now bleeding out the margin of the Window.
Is this an individual software problem? It doesn't matter if I reinstall an older program edition.


So I have the question of shrinking the image size of the desktop or whatever.
We know that Icons can be adjusted in size through personalization and the magic word:
metrics. Would installing an alternate windows style fix this? Or altering something in metrics?
Just a few pixels on that margin.



What I see is a right hand image where a slider on the margin is barely visible. I don't have
the problem in this Sevenforums window or any of that. It's not a browser issue so faras I know.


Lastly I did try a resolution change upward from 1024 x 768. But it's hard for me to read.


Twiddling with the screen image on the CRT monitor buttons did not solve the problem. Plus this
monitor is very old and the tuning buttons are hard to adjust.

 

[BrainDamage]

Can you post a screenshot of the problem? Usually in these cases the program is the one who's misbehaving. Sometimes double-clicking the title bar of the program a couple times is enough to fix this.

 

[loninappleton]

I will try that but it's the whole screen area.


Which is the title bar? I'll look at it right now. Very top where it says the name v 2.73 (of the program)?


It's also on just one machine if I did not clarify.

 

[loninappleton]

A screen shot is not possible to show the error at the edge. Screen shot just bleeds off the
area. It may be not reconcilable-- an old CRT issue. But it just doesn't make sense.
All other programs behave and this only started up lately. I tried that thing you said about
the title bar. That action just did the same thing as toggling out of 'full screen'. And naturally
I can do that. But it's a navigational pain having to jockey the screen around to get to that edge
slider.

 

[BrainDamage]

If the whole screen is missing the edge (for example if part of the Windows taskbar is sawn off as well), then it's probably a hardware or drivers issue. If only one program is missing the edge, then that program isn't getting drawn correctly, most likely because of a bug in that program. If I understood you right, if you maximize that program, it looks like you resized it so that its edges are slightly outside the screen. That would be a problem with the way the program is drawn.

 

[loninappleton]

Yes, I've contacted the software maker. I thought that changing one of their settings options
would do something but that also failed.


Thanks for helping me narrow it down. I'll leave the thread open for a while in case the software forum
responds with some answers.