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ptDev:

--- Quote from: MortenMacFly on March 07, 2011, 05:58:41 pm ---
--- Quote from: ryyker on March 07, 2011, 05:48:43 pm ---Hope this clarifies.

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Could it be that you are using a config file from a C::B version that ran on either a two-monitor system or a large (wide-screen) system? If so, the application might be placed outside the visible region, hence this should actually be corrected.

This often happens to me under the following circumstances:
Assume I was running C::B on a PC with two monitors and place it on the secondary monitor. Then when I login on a PC with only one monitor via Remote Desktop to that remote-PC and I open C::B it opens on the second window again, non-visible to me now. Then I have exactly the issue you see. I can only "maximise" C::B to make it visible. "Restoring" the window places it on the secondary monitor on the remote PC which is not visible to me, but surely present.

[The explanation might be a bit confusing... I know...]


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The same thing happens to me at times. I usually work around it by right-clicking on the taskbar, selecting "Move" and then bringing the frame into view using the cursor keys.

HTH

Pecan:
I seem to remember this used to happen to me also on WinXP.
I occasionally got TotalCommander (and others) stuck in maximized.

I'm not sure, but I think I used to right click on the start bar blank area and click on Cascade windows. Then used the menu>file>exit, not the [X] in the banner, to close the window. Then it behaved correctly.

Give that a try.

ryyker:
Pecan,

Your suggestion worked!  Thank you. 

Ryyker

MortenMacFly:

--- Quote from: Pecan on March 08, 2011, 02:07:30 pm ---I'm not sure, but I think I used to click on the start bar blank area and click on Cascade windows. Then used the menu>file>exit, not the [X] in the banner, to close the window. Then it behaved correctly.

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Great hint! This also works nicely for my Remote Desktop sessions. 8)

...I never noticed anything else but the "task manager" and "properties" in that menu... must have been the first time the other menu items got clicked in my Windows live time... ;-) :lol: :lol: :lol:

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