Applications starting off the screen?

paqman · #1 02-07-2007, 06:42 AM

Lately, I've had problems with a couple apps starting off screen. In other words, you can see the button on the task bar for the window, and when you click on it to minimize the window, you can see the window zip down from off the right side of the screen. And when you maximize it, you can see it zip up off to the right side of the screen.

It's only done this with two apps, and they're both "portable", meaning they were just installed to my thumb drive, and I run it off of there, and this problem only happens on other machines. Actually, as I write this, I thought of something. At home, where I installed them, I have dual screens. Could it be that perhaps, the last place it remembers the screen location is on the right-hand screen?

Maybe if I brought it home, restarted the app, and moved it back to the main screen, it would work on other pc's?

viktor1 · #2 02-07-2007, 06:53 AM

Yes that sounds like its worth a try

paqman · #3 02-07-2007, 06:54 AM

thanks. Should have cancelled the post when I thought of that, but I guess I still wanted to hear your opinion.

paqman · #4 02-07-2007, 07:01 AM

Lol, well, I just tried it, and it worked. I'm not at home, but I happen to be at work with dual screens. I plugged into my work pc, sure enough it opened up on the right-hand screen, I moved it over to the left screen, closed the app. Plugged it into the laptop, and bingo.

Ok, this thread is officially pointless!

I take it back, not completely pointless. I decided to try the other app I was having a problem with, it's a php editor. I'm trying to open it on the dual screen at work, and it doesn't pop up. bu it does on the laptop. Weird. And I can't tell which way it's zipping off screen. Strange. You'd think I could go somewhere in a temp file or something and reset the locations or something.

viktor1 · #5 02-07-2007, 08:43 AM

there is probably somethig to change the start-up location, nut i would try and load it at home and see were it starts first to see if that works before messing about with any settings.

paqman · #6 02-07-2007, 08:45 AM

Ok, I'll try it at home, but what do you mean by startup location?

viktor1 · #7 02-07-2007, 08:48 AM

well when i used to make programes in visual basic you got the option to pick a programmes start-up location, were it appears on screen when you open it, you could also pick the size of the screens and so on.

paqman · #8 02-07-2007, 08:54 AM

yeah, i assumed that, but this program seems to remember where you last closed it. You can get the program free if you want to look at it HERE.

If that site won't work, you can try here.

Anyway, I don't know if looking at the program will help. I'll test it out at home.

viktor1 · #9 02-07-2007, 08:57 AM

no i agree i think it has something to do with were you last closed it, the alternative could be to uninstall it and install it again.