Re: Vertical white strip along edge of desktop
- From: JAzbo <JAzbo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 18:28:01 -0800
Gene...
Again, thanks for your time and help. My friend and I have been using your
ideas to find a possible offender but have not yet been successful. Will
keep at it. Even though I still have the problem, you have set me on a
learning journey.
"Gene E. Bloch" wrote:
Your friend probably knows what autoindexing is....
Certain search programs enable you to do very fast searches on your
computer's disk drive(s) for files or for text inside of files. For
instance, you might know that you have a document from John Doe, but
you have forgotten what you called it or where you put it. So you bring
up your search program and search for files containing "John Doe".
These search utilities work by reading all your appropriate files and
making a database (called an index, oddly enough) of all the words in
all those files and where everything is to be found.
This indexing process takes place in the background - i.e., hidden from
your eyes. When it's complete it stops, but from time to time another
brief indexing operation keeps the data base up to date. You start a
search by clicking on buttons in a toolbar - which is the toolbar I
talked about before.
On 12/14/2006, JAzbo posted this:
Gene....
Thank you for your reply. It gives me something to pursue. I don't
understand what auto indexing is or how to troubleshoot it, but a friend who
is far more adept at these things, and is willing to help me, thinks your
suggestion made sense.
"Gene E. Bloch" wrote:
On 12/13/2006, JAzbo posted this:
A vertical white stripe has appeared along the entire left edge of my
desktop on my Dell Inspiron 6000 with XP Media Center. It is a thin
stripe until the pointer is hovered on it, at which point it jumps to
about a half inch width. When the pointer is moved from within this half
inch area, the stripe goes back to being just barely noticeable along the
edge. If I open a window, OE, or IE7 the stripe will be back at its half
inch width when I close same. The only way to reduce its size, in this
case, is to right or left click the mouse anywhere on the desktop.
Grabbing and dragging to the left with the mouse won’t work. I can drag it
to the right and then back to the left but not all the way. This has been
happening for a few months and is annoying. Any ideas to help this
non-techy computer user get rid of this stripe would be appreciated.
This is a lot like the behavior of the task bar when it has been placed
along the left edge of the screen when it is also set up in auto-hide
mode.
So I'm guessing that you have a program that runs a toolbar of its own,
and it is set similarly to what I said above. One sort of thing I would
check up on is auto-indexing in some program, or something like the
Google desktop search toolbar, or some other program like those (I also
think MS Office has a similar capability).
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