Re: Explorer pane acting up

anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 08/01/04 

Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2004 10:34:21 -0700

I'm using nVIDIA 52.16, but I haven't modified those in
months. If I try to resize explorer to exactly the size
of the primary window, then I can see it happen as well,
but only for a fraction of a second, after which it fixes
itself, without having to click on Folders twice (maybe
I'm off by a pixel). BTW, my problem is independent of
the screen resolution (640x480, 800x600, 1376x1032, etc.).

Andrei

>-----Original Message-----
>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.
>.
>