Re: Explorer pane acting up

From: Larry(LJL269) (NO_at_EMAIL.COM)
Date: 08/01/04 

Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2004 10:35:38 GMT

1- What vcard driver u using?
2-What happens if u drag Explorer window to its near
maximum but not maximized on the primary monitor?

Larry

On Sun, 1 Aug 2004 00:22:25 -0700, "Andrei"
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

|
|I have an annoying little problem on a WinXP SP1 system:
|side panes in Internet and Windows Explorer (such as
|Search, Folders) jump up as I resize them. I prepared a
|little movie that demonstrates the problem and posted it
|here in both AVI and QT formats:
|
|http://www.cs.unc.edu/~andrei/pane-pain/
|
|As you can see, as soon as I drag the vertical separator
|between the 2 panes, the Folders pane jumps up and covers
|a part of the toolbar above it, while leaving a blank
|strip at the bottom. Turning the pane off and back on by
|clicking on the Folder button twice fixes it.
|
|This happens when the following conditions are all true:
|* a Dualview setup with 2 monitors is used
|* the Explorer window is maximized on the primary monitor
|* the primary monitor is located to the right of the
|secondary monitor (in Display Properties -> Settings)
|
|The above seem to indicate that it is a vertical
|coordinate problem when the pane is drawn.
|
|I have tried the following without success:
|* moving the toolbars around, locking and unlocking the
|toolbars
|* moving the primary monitor to the left of the secondary
|one (fixed!) and back (broken again!)
|* rebooting
|* reinstalling IE6
|
|I have further determined:
|* the error is NOT propagated in the settings saved by
|the "Files and Settings Transfer Wizard"
|* the error is propagated with the user's profile,
|NTUSER.DAT, and thus AFAIK could be in the registry hive
|HKEY_CURRENT_USER
|
|All this makes me suspect that it is a corrupt value in
|the registry under HKEY_CURRENT_USER. Does anyone know
|which one that could be? Or is it something else
|entirely? I'm trying to fix this little annoyance without
|trashing my profile if possible.
|
|
|Andrei State
|University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Any advise is my attempt to contribute more than I have received but I can only assure you that it works on my PC. GOOD LUCK.