I.E.6 Browser Window Two Thirds of Screen

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My friend has a Dell D800 notebook, W2k and Internet Explorer 6.
She tells I.E. 6 opens full screen and centered when not connected to the
Internet.
When connected to the Internet, via cable modem/router/802.11b dlink wi fi,
the browser is two thirds off of the screen and can not be centered. She
tells me her daughters are very computer literate and have not been able to
fix it. I have never heard of this problem before and have not personally
witnessed it.
Anybody else heard of this?

I plan to bring the notebook to my house and using my ISP connect to the
Internet in an attempt to replicate the problem, then fix it.

Thanks,

Mike
 
Mike said:
My friend has a Dell D800 notebook, W2k and Internet Explorer 6.
She tells I.E. 6 opens full screen and centered when not connected
to the Internet.
When connected to the Internet, via cable modem/router/802.11b dlink
wi fi, the browser is two thirds off of the screen and can not be
centered. She tells me her daughters are very computer literate and
have not been able to fix it. I have never heard of this problem
before and have not personally witnessed it.
Anybody else heard of this?

I plan to bring the notebook to my house and using my ISP connect to
the Internet in an attempt to replicate the problem, then fix it.

Thanks,

Mike
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From: http://www.fjsmjs.com/IE/offpos.htm

Symptom: IE opens a maximized window shifted down and to the right.

Remove any 'Auto-hide' option for the taskbar and while the window is
maximized, resize the taskbar then return it to the desired size. This is to
try to make Windows re-calculate the window size and boundaries.

If no joy, run regedit and remove these registry key values:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\window_placement

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\Desktop\OldWorkAreas\OldWorkAreaRects

Then reboot.
 
If Frank's suggestion isn't enough you could also play with the
the display resolution settings, particularly if your DPI setting is too high.

For a workaround you could use a trick that Windows Update posters
are often given if they can't see any buttons when they get a
license agreement: tab to the imagined buttons. (E.g. in the case of
a web page you might find that there are some links at the bottom of
the page that you could tab to. That would certainly be the case for
MSKB articles, for example.)


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
 
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