New windows open in same location??

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Drew Moreland

Being rather new to all of this, this may seem an odd question. I understand
that when XP is instructed to open a link in a new window, it randomly
selects the location for the window on the screen so multiple windows do not
hide one another.

A day or so ago, I noticed that my XP Home is opening every new window in
the same location on the screen. I can move the location to anywhere I want
to, but having done so, all subsequent new windows open in the same place.

I have done nothing significant to the system in the past few days except my
usual utilities updates and can see no reason for this change.

Is there something I can check/change to restore the previous random
placement of new windows?

XP Home, 512K RAM, 14Gb available HD, Ad-Aware, Spybot, AVAST,
SpywareBlaster
 
You understand wrong. It is never to a random location. But as all programs work differently it is stupid to discussa generalities.
 
Hi,
If you're referring to Internet Explorer windows, try this...
(No guarantees, but variations of this work with IE windows)
Open a webpage. Stretch it out to fullsize. Don't use maximize.
Choose any link on that webpage and right-click> open in a new window.
Stretch that second window out to the desired size- don't use maximize.
Misalign it slightly (the way that "cascade" would.) Close the first IE
window. Then close that second resized window.

If it's Windows Explorer we're trying to retrain... Open 3 or 4 windows and
cascade them (right-click the taskbar) then resize them. Then close them in
the order that they were opened.

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]
 
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