Switch user and moving windows

Hi
I have Windows 7 64-bit Home on a laptop with a 1600x900 screen.
When I switch from my administrator account to the limited Family account and then back
again some of the windows on the desktop have moved!
So far they appear to be 32-bit programs and they move to the left about 110 pixels.
Weird...

Any ideas where I should look? Googling doesn't come up with anything except people with
moving icons.

thanks

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Mark

Mark wrote:
> Hi
> I have Windows 7 64-bit Home on a laptop with a 1600x900 screen.
> When I switch from my administrator account to the limited Family
> account and then back again some of the windows on the desktop have moved!
> So far they appear to be 32-bit programs and they move to the left about
> 110 pixels.
> Weird...
>
> Any ideas where I should look? Googling doesn't come up with anything
> except people with moving icons.
>
> thanks
>

Do the two accounts have different video settings? I switch from one
account with a larger DPI setting to one with a lower one, and resizing
often occurs.

I also have two boxes linked through a KVM switch, and similar sorts of
things happen when moving from one to the other. I've even seen the
Recycle Bin move from top right to top left.

Ed

Thanks Ed, the DPI and resolution settings was the first place I went to.
It's a new laptop and I'm still setting it up and this was the first time I'd used the new
Family account and switched back to my admin account. Odd that it's just 32-bit programs.
I'm up-to-date on graphics driver etc.
I've to install Win7 SP1 maybe that will sort it. In all my years of computing I've never
seen this before. Icons moving yes, but not windows. They don't resize, just move
sideways. Very odd.


Mark


> Mark wrote:
>> Hi
>> I have Windows 7 64-bit Home on a laptop with a 1600x900 screen.
>> When I switch from my administrator account to the limited Family
>> account and then back again some of the windows on the desktop have moved!
>> So far they appear to be 32-bit programs and they move to the left about
>> 110 pixels.
>> Weird...
>>
>> Any ideas where I should look? Googling doesn't come up with anything
>> except people with moving icons.
>>
>> thanks
>>
>
> Do the two accounts have different video settings? I switch from one
> account with a larger DPI setting to one with a lower one, and resizing
> often occurs.
>
> I also have two boxes linked through a KVM switch, and similar sorts of
> things happen when moving from one to the other. I've even seen the
> Recycle Bin move from top right to top left.
>
> Ed
>

Mark wrote:
> Thanks Ed, the DPI and resolution settings was the first place I went to.
> It's a new laptop and I'm still setting it up and this was the first
> time I'd used the new Family account and switched back to my admin
> account. Odd that it's just 32-bit programs.
> I'm up-to-date on graphics driver etc.
> I've to install Win7 SP1 maybe that will sort it. In all my years of
> computing I've never seen this before. Icons moving yes, but not
> windows. They don't resize, just move sideways. Very odd.
>
>
> Mark
>

I'd be pretty surprised if just installing SP1 will cure that. Still,
you never know for sure until you've tried it.

It certainly sounds like a display settings thing, as if the 32-bit
programs are using a different font size.

BTW, when you say they "move sideways" do you get screen wrap, or a
blank area on one side?

Ed

On 12/12/2011, Mark posted:
> Thanks Ed, the DPI and resolution settings was the first place I went to.
> It's a new laptop and I'm still setting it up and this was the first time I'd
> used the new Family account and switched back to my admin account. Odd that
> it's just 32-bit programs.
> I'm up-to-date on graphics driver etc.
> I've to install Win7 SP1 maybe that will sort it. In all my years of
> computing I've never seen this before. Icons moving yes, but not windows.
> They don't resize, just move sideways. Very odd.

Perhaps you are positioning the windows in the wrong places and the
operating system is trying to teach you the right places.

No, I am not serious. That's just the surrealistic side of my sense of
humor.

> Mark


>> Mark wrote:
>>> Hi
>>> I have Windows 7 64-bit Home on a laptop with a 1600x900 screen.
>>> When I switch from my administrator account to the limited Family
>>> account and then back again some of the windows on the desktop have moved!
>>> So far they appear to be 32-bit programs and they move to the left about
>>> 110 pixels.
>>> Weird...
>>>
>>> Any ideas where I should look? Googling doesn't come up with anything
>>> except people with moving icons.
>>>
>>> thanks
>>>
>>
>> Do the two accounts have different video settings? I switch from one
>> account with a larger DPI setting to one with a lower one, and resizing
>> often occurs.
>>
>> I also have two boxes linked through a KVM switch, and similar sorts of
>> things happen when moving from one to the other. I've even seen the
>> Recycle Bin move from top right to top left.
>>
>> Ed

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Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

I'm not sure SP1 will do it either, but I have to install it anyway...
Font sizes are the same as far as I can see
There are a couple of windows I normally have open, Notepad++ and FileCommander, both
32-bit. Their right window edges are flush with the right edge of the screen.
When I switch to the other account and back again, they have moved to the left about 110
pixels so that there is a gap between them and the right screen edge. They haven't resized
- that I could partly understand.
64-bit Explorer windows stay where they are.

Not a great problem, just annoying.

Mark


> Mark wrote:
>> Thanks Ed, the DPI and resolution settings was the first place I went to.
>> It's a new laptop and I'm still setting it up and this was the first
>> time I'd used the new Family account and switched back to my admin
>> account. Odd that it's just 32-bit programs.
>> I'm up-to-date on graphics driver etc.
>> I've to install Win7 SP1 maybe that will sort it. In all my years of
>> computing I've never seen this before. Icons moving yes, but not
>> windows. They don't resize, just move sideways. Very odd.
>>
>>
>> Mark
>>
>
> I'd be pretty surprised if just installing SP1 will cure that. Still,
> you never know for sure until you've tried it.
>
> It certainly sounds like a display settings thing, as if the 32-bit
> programs are using a different font size.
>
> BTW, when you say they "move sideways" do you get screen wrap, or a
> blank area on one side?
>
> Ed
>

On 12/13/2011, Mark posted:
> I'm not sure SP1 will do it either, but I have to install it anyway...
> Font sizes are the same as far as I can see
> There are a couple of windows I normally have open, Notepad++ and
> FileCommander, both 32-bit. Their right window edges are flush with the right
> edge of the screen.
> When I switch to the other account and back again, they have moved to the
> left about 110 pixels so that there is a gap between them and the right
> screen edge. They haven't resized - that I could partly understand.
> 64-bit Explorer windows stay where they are.

> Not a great problem, just annoying.

> Mark

I just tried it, since I had a Notepad++ window open.

The first time I switched it moved right about a centimeter (I didn't
count or estimate pixels).

I went through a second cycle without either moving the window myself,
or logging out of the new user. This time the window stayed in place.

I have no idea what this means :-)

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Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

It moved RIGHT? Not left?
Even odder.
I have another program Second Copy (also 32-bit) which won't stay at the screen right edge
at all even if I don't switch user. It normally lives in the 'notification area' but if I
open it it's moved to the left. Drag it back to the right, close and open again and it's
moved back to the left again.

So I'm not so sure now if it's the switch to another user that principally causes it,
maybe a desktop redraw...

Definitely a 32-bit program problem though (so far).

Mark


> I just tried it, since I had a Notepad++ window open.
>
> The first time I switched it moved right about a centimeter (I didn't
> count or estimate pixels).
>
> I went through a second cycle without either moving the window myself,
> or logging out of the new user. This time the window stayed in place.
>
> I have no idea what this means :-)
>

On 12/14/2011, Mark posted:
> It moved RIGHT? Not left?
> Even odder.

Yes. I didn't mention this in my prior post: I tried it a couple of
times for precisely that reason.

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Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:44:28 -0800, Gene E. Bloch
<> wrote:

>On 12/14/2011, Mark posted:
>> It moved RIGHT? Not left?
>> Even odder.
>
>Yes. I didn't mention this in my prior post: I tried it a couple of
>times for precisely that reason.

Question for both of you: Regardless of direction, once it moves, does
it stay in the new position, or does it continue to move farther and
farther every time you switch users?

My guess is that it moves a bit and then remains in its new position,
but I don't know the exact reason for it.

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Char Jackson