'moving windows'

  • Thread starter Thread starter Paul Jones
  • Start date Start date
P

Paul Jones

I have a user who claims someone is logging into their
computer when they are not around. the reason for this
belief is that sometimes when they start up Outlook XP
it's window will open in a different location on the
screen than the location where they closed it last. I
have made sure that no one is logging on to the physical
computer and doing this and they are not using a RUP.

Is there any reason why Win_k2 is not always saving the
last location the window was closed?
 
Thanks. Yea i think they are paranoid too.

The user has logged off the computer (which is right next
to me) and then walked about and came back 2 hours later
to day the windows had moved while he was gone... and of
curse i had been sitting there the whole time and no one
touched his computer. This has happened on many occations.

I will look to see if anything is odd in his preferences.
 
LOL
-----Original Message-----
You should install VNC on his machine and mess with him too. :]

Ray at work

Paul said:
Thanks. Yea i think they are paranoid too.

The user has logged off the computer (which is right next
to me) and then walked about and came back 2 hours later
to day the windows had moved while he was gone... and of
curse i had been sitting there the whole time and no one
touched his computer. This has happened on many occations.

I will look to see if anything is odd in his preferences.
Click to expand...


.
Click to expand...
 
Paul Jones said:
I have a user who claims someone is logging into their
computer when they are not around. the reason for this
belief is that sometimes when they start up Outlook XP
it's window will open in a different location on the
screen than the location where they closed it last. I
have made sure that no one is logging on to the physical
computer and doing this and they are not using a RUP.
Click to expand...
Is there any reason why Win_k2 is not always saving the
last location the window was closed?
Click to expand...

In my experience, Windows periodically forgets window positions and sizes.
Everything will be consistent for a couple of weeks, and then one suddenly
one day some applications come up differently. Outlook 2000 is especially
bad in this regard, as is the Acrobat Reader. I've also observed that
opening one application from within another (using the Send to Mail
Recipient function in Word, or opening an Excel worksheet in IE, for
example) often resets the target application's window size and position to
the default small-window-in-the-middle-of-the-screen setting.
 
Back
Top