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Thread ID: 127262	2012-10-13 06:50:00	Sizing images on wide screen monitors	Billy T (70)	Press F1

Post ID	Timestamp	Content	User
1306644	2012-10-13 23:35:00	Mabe I'm thick, but I can't see what the problem is, perhaps this will help www.dummies.com :banana	Terry Porritt (14)
1306645	2012-10-14 04:49:00	There's a literal plethora of great windows shortcuts you can use. In addition to left and right to snap, you can minimise and maximise windows with windows up and windows down.	8ftmetalhaed (14526)
1306646	2012-10-14 07:10:00	I say learn to move your eyes. Unfortunately my glasses have graduated lenses and do not allow for significant lateral eye movement, so I have to move my head to maintain focus. I'm working on the other options but have amire pressing problem right now with MSSE. Cheers Billy 8-{)	Billy T (70)
1306647	2012-10-14 07:24:00	Unfortunately my glasses have graduated lenses and do not allow for significant lateral eye movement, so I have to move my head to maintain focus. I'm working on the other options but have amire pressing problem right now with MSSE. Cheers Billy 8-{)dont over complicate things billy. It's as simple as dragging the corner of the browser either left or right to resize it. Nothing more. Don't be afraid, live dangerously for a change. Try it!	plod (107)
1306648	2012-10-14 08:54:00	dont over complicate things billy . It's as simple as dragging the corner of the browser either left or right to resize it . Nothing more . Don't be afraid, live dangerously for a change . Try it! I know about that thanks plod, and I've used it for years . I've been there and tried that, in fact it was my first thought, but I can't 'hook on' to the edges or corner of any window . I just had another bright idea though: most of my commonly used sites are accessed from a desktop Icon that is programmed to open them at a set page, and I thought that they were pretty much all set to open maximised as well, because of the limited display area on my old monitor . However, I just did a quick check and my screen icons for PF1 and a range of other sites don't allow me to open in any other form than maximised, so that's another good idea down the gurgler . I can live with it the way it is, but I had fancied the idea of having both a document and a website open side by side, so I'm going to have to work on this a little more I think . I may have some less obvious setting cocked up . Cheers Billy 8-{)	Billy T (70)
1306649	2012-10-14 20:22:00	Aero Snap does work with dual monitors try windows key + left or right arrow Billy, have you read this? Windows key + left or right arrow will do what you want. :)	Nick G (16709)
1306650	2012-10-14 20:37:00	Got me baffled. Can't see why you have to live with maximised windows unlike oretty much everyone else.	linw (53)
1306651	2012-10-14 22:22:00	The maximise button also un-maximises if you click it again, or you can grab the top bar of the window and drag it down and to one side to expose the edges and then hover the mouse over the window edge to get the double ended arrow and drag them to suit. Once you can see the window edges you can move any of them to size it how you want or use a corner to do two directions at once. The bottom corner is easiest just because there are no buttons to accidentally click. The windows key shortcut tips are useful, I must try to remember them. I use Aero snap on dual screens, but only on the left edge of one and the right edge of the other :) the edge where they "connect" I've never been able to snap to.	dugimodo (138)
1306652	2012-10-14 22:58:00	Well, I've looked again this morning and for Word, Excel, Publisher, Irfanview and a few others I tried, the only movable object on the whole screen is the task bar along the bottom that I can extend if I wish to, but I don't. I still can't drag the PF1 Window either. However, Metapad, Adobe and some other programs are OK, so I suspect that it is perhaps an icon parameter that is making the difference when the program is opened, but opening minimised seems to mean open to the system tray only. I need to dig a little deeper I think. Still loving the screen though, I didn't realise how tired the old IBM had got. Cheers Billy 8-{) Right. For some programs I can choose 'normal window' in the icon properties and they open smaller and resizeable, but Word/Excel/Publisher and a range of other programs do not shrink when normal window is selected, and don't provide drag handles.	Billy T (70)
1306653	2012-10-14 23:28:00	Sorted. :D I'd stuffed something up, but I'm not sure how I actually fixed it. I was keyboarding something and since I don't touch-type I wasn't viewing the screen, and when I looked up it was ok. I'll not tempt fate or look a gift horse in the mouth, a fix is a fix. Thanks for the advice, it kept me trying............ Cheers Billy 8-{) :thumbs:	Billy T (70)
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