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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: Enormous Desktop!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.185127.21936@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <19930102095813.h198@hosp.med.umich.edu>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 18:51:27 GMT
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- In article <19930102095813.h198@hosp.med.umich.edu> h198@hosp.med.umich.edu (Gene Mangum) writes:
- >I keep icons that I use frequently on the visible part of the desktop, and
- >things that I seldom of never use (Minimized Window Viewer, OS/2 Help, etc.)
- >off the left side of the screen. Consequently, my desktop is about 1.5
- >times the screen size, with a scroll bar at the bottom.
- >Somehow, my desktop definition has got screwed up so that a few icons are
- >far, far to the right (not politically speaking :-) If I click on the
- >arrow part of the scroll bar, the desktop doesn't move that I can tell.
- >If I click in the empty part of the scroll bar (to scroll a page), the
- >icons move, but the thumb of the scroll bar does not perceptibly move.
- >This means that the desktop is absolutely *HUGE*. I tried looking at
- >the .INI files with EDITINI, but it's not obvious to me what to change.
- >Any help to bail me out would be greatly appreciated. I *WILL* start
- >backing up my desktop as soon as I have one worth backing up...
-
- Click on the desktop background with mouse button two and select
- Arrange. This will destroy your icon positioning, but it won't take
- too long to put things back where you want them. Then, when you're
- satisfied with the revamped desktop, click on the desktop background
- with mouse button two, select Refresh, mouse button two, select
- Shutdown, and reboot.
-
- The phenomenon you describe sometimes occurs when you switch display
- drivers.
-
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