Topic: window disappears completely?

[thegallery]

Hi People. I'm running Outlook 2003 on Win XP. When I minimize or maximize, it is no problem. The program is as it should be. But I have no 'in between' size. If I try to size the window like that, it completely disappears, like it is minimized, (though it isn't). It can be doubly confusing because I'll click on it in the taskbar thinking it is minimized and will appear, and nothing happens. I have to right click and go to Maximize. Any ideas where the window is and how I can get it back? Thanks

[Rodders]

Wot?  Could you explain that again in terms us thickies can understand, TG?

[Simon]

Are you trying to drag the sides of a window to a specific size, TG?  I've tried simulating your symptoms, and the only way I can manage it is to carefully miss the edge of the window, and click on the one behind, thus making the active window appear to minimise to the taskbar.  

[chorleydave]

Confused me too.  Do you mean that you can either have it full screen or minimised to the task bar, but not (in Microsoft's terminology) in a "Normal Window"?

[thegallery]

I either have a maximized window, or it's minimized to the taskbar; there is no in between window. It disappears completely. Sorry for confusion! You have it right chorley.

[Adept]

Presumably this doesn't happen with any other program TG?

I initially thought it may have been a graphics driver problem, but if it only happens with Outlook, it has to be an Outlook problem.

Have you tried Detect and Repair from the Help menu?

[thegallery]

If you weren't confused before...

This is only affecting Outlook. I ran detect and repair and nothing changed.

You know how windows memorizes your preferred windows size? Well, for some reason, I think that the standard window sized got reduced to zero, so there is nothing visible to resize.

I use a program called UltraMon so I can easily move windows back and forth between two different monitors set at two different resolutions. It has a great feature called "relative sizing", so that if a window takes up much of the screen on my higher resolution monitor, when I move it to a lower resolution monitor, it automatically resizes the window to look 'relatively' the same. In this case, it won't be larger than the second monitor.

I think what may have happened is that I had the window extremely small in my higher resolution monitor, and perhaps when I moved it to the lower resolution monitor it completely disappeared. I'm not sure how this is possible because any other windows, when this happens, no matter how small it becomes the title bar tools are always there. As an experiment right now I made an IE window really small and flipped it back and forth from monitor to monitor. It eventually gets smaller and smaller but still the title tools are there and the title bar is re-sizable.

I also thought that maybe it is resized but just way off the screen? I have reset my monitors to the largest resolutions I can, and still I don't see Outlook. Could it be even further off the screen? Beyond what my resolutions can see?

[thegallery]

Stop the presses!

I can't believe I wrote all that and just figured it out. Well, I didn't figure out how Outlook disappeared, but I did get it back.

I opened up a few windows and then went down and right clicked on the taskbar and chose "cascade" . It automatically resized all my windows including the invisible Outlook    

My apologies for all the fuss. At least I'll know what to do if a window disappears.

[Simon]

Great news, TG, and a good tip for others!  

[Adept]

I opened up a few windows and then went down and right clicked on the taskbar and chose "cascade" . It automatically resized all my windows including the invisible Outlook    

:mg: I would never have thought of that! It's always the simplest thing isn't it?

TG