Hi everyone again!
Please pardon us… me… for asking such a question here, but truly, if a question can be answered anywhere, it would be amongst the resident geniuses here. I tried asking this in several Windows forums, all came up stumped…
You see I am from the world of Mac computers, and whenever desktop corruption occurred with window positioning and column size and all that not being remembered, I’d simply use the “rebuild the desktop” command.
Now I’m not familiar with an equivalent in Windows… what has happened recently is that every now and then, it seems random and very weird, when I open a window, its view will have reverted to large large icons even though I previously set it to Details, and even when I set it back to Details, it’s sorted upside down and I have to click the little triangle to sort it back right. Also, when I open the Control Panel, the column widths (for name and description, I have this set to classic view I think it’s called and not the jumbo icons) are always shortened. It’s so weird…
And another problem is time to time, I’ll open a window, and it won’t open fully at all. What I mean by this is that simply its title bar appears and and I have to move the mouse very precisely and stretch the window open again, which is a real annoyance after an extended period of time.
Has anyone ever heard of this or whatever might be the problem? I’ve tried a number of things, including reverting to an old System Restore backup (which it couldn’t do for some reason and showed a big X although subsequent Restores from more recent dates after the problem happened seemed to have worked) didn’t work, registry cleaning didn’t work – I’m totally stumped!
Any ideas :)? Thanks a lot… this is Windows XP, SP1, all latest updates and hotfixes applied… the problem started happening a few days ago, after I freshly installed Windows XP again because I’d been having much worse problems in the days before.
Wongaloid 1