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September 20th, 2003, 04:49 AM
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Sizing Issues...
Running XP here... (yes I know I should upgrade to 2000 one of these days...)
A few weeks ago, I tried to open the Fonts folder in Explorer, when I had apparently way too many fonts for Windows to like in the folder, and got really weird problems with themes and windows and such. I managed to kill most of them, but one has remained, and I can not figure out what the hell is causing it. A picture is worth a thousand words (or more), so here is a (unfortunately GIF) screenshot:
http://spaceempires.net/files/ack.gif
This only happens in some subwindows of some programs. WinRar, Trillian, WinZip, and many others. Any ideas on how to fix this? |
September 20th, 2003, 05:21 AM
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Re: Sizing Issues...
You are running a more unusual XP theme...perhaps it is the real culprit?
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September 20th, 2003, 05:30 AM
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Re: Sizing Issues...
Not in any way, no. The problem persists in other themes as well. Also, I have been using that theme for some 7 months without a hitch.
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September 20th, 2003, 06:21 AM
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Re: Sizing Issues...
seven months? windows is just getting it's glitches warmed up.
funny because it's true or to true to be funny?
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September 20th, 2003, 08:47 AM
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Re: Sizing Issues...
hmph... i cant see anything wrong....??????
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September 20th, 2003, 08:56 AM
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Re: Sizing Issues...
The text in that window is way too large and around 40% of the stuff that should be there gets cut off. Go get WinRar and you can see what it should look like.  |
September 21st, 2003, 05:55 AM
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Re: Sizing Issues...
Switch to either normal XP or classic settings and then back to your theme. Perhaps some font size thing has played havoc with text box settings in the programs you mentioned.
Back in Win98, I had changed the size of menu bars and it caused the small icons (like those in system tray) to get a bit larger like the minimize/maximize/exit buttons, but lose their colour resolution.
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September 21st, 2003, 06:59 AM
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Re: Sizing Issues...
Already tried that... there is no theme problem.
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September 21st, 2003, 12:32 PM
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Re: Sizing Issues...
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September 21st, 2003, 03:51 PM
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Re: Sizing Issues...
SE.net was down for a few hours (three or so), now it is up again. This link is working fine for me, so I would assume that was also your problem. (SE.net was down at the moment of your post)
[ September 21, 2003, 14:52: Message edited by: Alneyan ]
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