Win 7 Explorer fills the screen when saving a file. WHY???

[Loony]

Hlo

Anyone know how to castrate Win Explorer to a much smaller size (FAR
FROM A FULL SCREEN) when saving a file?

THX.

 

[Nil]

Anyone know how to castrate Win Explorer to a much smaller size (FAR
FROM A FULL SCREEN) when saving a file?

This is a very vague and uninformative description of your problem.

This should help:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375

 

[choro]

Hlo

Anyone know how to castrate Win Explorer to a much smaller size (FAR
FROM A FULL SCREEN) when saving a file?

THX.

Grab it with the mouse in the bottom right hand corner and drag it
upwards diagonally to reduce its size. Then when it is the size you want
x it off to close the window. Next time you open it it will open at that
smaller size.

It remembers your preference and from then on opens up at that size. But
if you accidentally click it to full size, then click it in the top
right hand corner to the reduced size before closing it.

Otherwise if you close it when it is in full size, it will think that is
your preferred size.

-- choro

 

[Loony]

Grab it with the mouse in the bottom right hand corner and drag it
upwards diagonally to reduce its size. Then when it is the size you want
x it off to close the window. Next time you open it it will open at that
smaller size.

Thanks Choro but it didn't work for me. I tried holding the left and the
right buttons (separately) but no success. The page is still full screen
size.

It remembers your preference and from then on opens up at that size. But
if you accidentally click it to full size, then click it in the top
right hand corner to the reduced size before closing it.

Otherwise if you close it when it is in full size, it will think that is
your preferred size.

All that would be great but it leaves me out :-(

-- choro

Is it possible that there is a missing step somewhere?

Thanks for the attempt anyway.

 

[Loony]

This is a very vague and uninformative description of your problem.

This should help:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375

It has nothing to do with my question.

 

[Wolf K]

On 18/01/2012 13:54, choro wrote: [...]

Grab it with the mouse in the bottom right hand corner and drag it
upwards diagonally to reduce its size. Then when it is the size you want
x it off to close the window. Next time you open it it will open at that
smaller size.

Thanks Choro but it didn't work for me. I tried holding the left and the
right buttons (separately) but no success. The page is still full screen
size.

Click the middle button before you try this. You've set Explorer to
fixed full screen, in which mode Choro's advice doesn't work.

[...]

HTH
Wolf K.

 

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

It has nothing to do with my question.

It has everything to do with your question - that is, it tells you how
to ask your question in such a way that you include sufficient detail
for others to understand the problem well enough to be able to answer.
As it is, it isn't clear what the exact problem is, what steps you take
that cause the problem to appear, etc.

 

[choro]

On 18/01/2012 13:54, choro wrote: [...]

Grab it with the mouse in the bottom right hand corner and drag it
upwards diagonally to reduce its size. Then when it is the size you want
x it off to close the window. Next time you open it it will open at that
smaller size.

Thanks Choro but it didn't work for me. I tried holding the left and the
right buttons (separately) but no success. The page is still full screen
size.

Click the middle button before you try this. You've set Explorer to
fixed full screen, in which mode Choro's advice doesn't work.

Good thinking! Of course it is in the full screen mode then and cannot
be resized using the manual method I advocated. Just to add something,
you can not only size the "Save" window but you can also position it
where you want it to appear. Something I had forgotten to mention.

One other note: When in full screen mode, the explorer window and other
windows can be made to jump to the left or right half of the screen by
using the "Windows" + any one of the Arrow Keys as a hotkey. Experiment
and find out. Win+Up Arrow for example will give you full screen.
--
choro

[...]

HTH
Wolf K.

 

[Ed Cryer]

Hlo

Anyone know how to castrate Win Explorer to a much smaller size (FAR
FROM A FULL SCREEN) when saving a file?

THX.

By process of elimination, I think I've hit upon the problem you have.
Elementary, my dear Loony, for the world's greatest detective.

You've got a DPI setting so high that the "save as" screen cuts off the
bottom three option boxes; encoding, save, cancel.

The answer is to reduce the DPI.

Ed

 

[Wolf K]

By process of elimination, I think I've hit upon the problem you have.
Elementary, my dear Loony, for the world's greatest detective.

You've got a DPI setting so high that the "save as" screen cuts off the
bottom three option boxes; encoding, save, cancel.

The answer is to reduce the DPI.

Ed

If this is the problem, I think you have it backwards.

Wolf K.

 

[Nil]

It has nothing to do with my question.

It has everything to do with your question. Did you read it? If you
did, you would have learned how to ask a coherent technical question,
providing enough precise detail for people to give you good, educated
answers.

 

[Ed Cryer]

If this is the problem, I think you have it backwards.

Wolf K.

This a superb conversation. It makes me proud to be a linguist.
If science has an objective language that can be shared throughout the
scientific community, by which observations can be recorded and shared,
and by which truth can gradually be narrowed as theory replaces theory,
well, I have yet to discover it.

In a world where we can't even prove that reality exists beyond mental
awareness; wherein a Higgs boson is necessary for the Standard Model of
particle physics and yet, if isolated and found, will simply corroborate
the theory rather than set it as true; wherein quantum theory has never
been falsified through millions of tests and yet involves the
Uncertainty Principle that confounds human reason; well, if even users
of the same language can't make head or tail of each other's statements,
then that would seem rather appropriate to the known status quo.

Ed

 

[Loony]

By process of elimination, I think I've hit upon the problem you have.
Elementary, my dear Loony, for the world's greatest detective.

You've got a DPI setting so high that the "save as" screen cuts off the
bottom three option boxes; encoding, save, cancel.

The answer is to reduce the DPI.

Ed

Thanks all for your efforts.

I reduced my DPI from 1280x1040 to 1280x960. That blurred my screen and
I did not succeed in reducing the Win Explorer. The middle button
someone mentioned - I have a Logitech Laser and there is a little silver
button in the middle with what looks like a tennis racquet. It didn't
help though. I think I'll have to start again back in kindergarten.

Where is the click supposed to be made?

Has anyone succeeded in achieving this Win Explorer reduction? How many?

 

[Loony]

Thanks all for your efforts.

I reduced my DPI from 1280x1040 to 1280x960. That blurred my screen and
I did not succeed in reducing the Win Explorer. The middle button
someone mentioned - I have a Logitech Laser and there is a little silver
button in the middle with what looks like a tennis racquet. It didn't
help though. I think I'll have to start again back in kindergarten.

Where is the click supposed to be made?

Has anyone succeeded in achieving this Win Explorer reduction? How many?

Wow!

After my middle click, a round button appeared on the lower left corner
of Win Explorer and it reduced immediately to a much smaller size.

Thanks guys

 

[Loony]

Wow!

After my middle click, a round button appeared on the lower left corner
of Win Explorer and it reduced immediately to a much smaller size.

Thanks guys

The round button has the words Hide Folders.

 

[Loony]

On 18/01/2012 13:54, choro wrote: [...]

Grab it with the mouse in the bottom right hand corner and drag it
upwards diagonally to reduce its size. Then when it is the size you want
x it off to close the window. Next time you open it it will open at that
smaller size.

Thanks Choro but it didn't work for me. I tried holding the left and the
right buttons (separately) but no success. The page is still full screen
size.

Click the middle button before you try this. You've set Explorer to
fixed full screen, in which mode Choro's advice doesn't work.

[...]

HTH
Wolf K.

Congratulations Wolf, you hit the right button

 

[Char Jackson]

I reduced my DPI from 1280x1040 to 1280x960. That blurred my screen and
I did not succeed in reducing the Win Explorer. The middle button
someone mentioned - I have a Logitech Laser and there is a little silver
button in the middle with what looks like a tennis racquet. It didn't
help though. I think I'll have to start again back in kindergarten.

Where is the click supposed to be made?

Has anyone succeeded in achieving this Win Explorer reduction? How many?

Looks like you figured it out, but I'd like to join those who pointed
out that your question was ridiculously vague. In the future, you may
get faster and better assistance if you ask your question properly.
Use the link that Nil provided (the one that you said didn't apply,
but it did apply) to see what kind of information to provide. Good
luck.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

alt.windows7.general:

It has everything to do with your question. Did you read it? If you
did, you would have learned how to ask a coherent technical question,
providing enough precise detail for people to give you good, educated
answers.

Why can't you guys understand that, as he said, Loony wants to
*castrate* Windows Eplorer?

Also, why can't I figure out what that is supposed to mean?

 

[Nil]

Why can't you guys understand that, as he said, Loony wants to
*castrate* Windows Eplorer?

OOOOooooo... NOW I get it.

Here's the correct answer:

http://medical-tools.com/veterinary/castration-instruments.php

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

This a superb conversation. It makes me proud to be a linguist.
If science has an objective language that can be shared throughout the
scientific community, by which observations can be recorded and shared, and
by which truth can gradually be narrowed as theory replaces theory, well, I
have yet to discover it.

In a world where we can't even prove that reality exists beyond mental
awareness; wherein a Higgs boson is necessary for the Standard Model of
particle physics and yet, if isolated and found, will simply corroborate the
theory rather than set it as true; wherein quantum theory has never been
falsified through millions of tests and yet involves the Uncertainty
Principle that confounds human reason; well, if even users of the same
language can't make head or tail of each other's statements, then that would
seem rather appropriate to the known status quo.

Ed

I can't hardly fail to avoid disagreeing with what you couldn't hardly
have avoided having written.

Or do I mean something else?

Actually, I find your little essay on semiotics to be very cogent...