Hi, Thank you for the contribution. The problem is resolved! Just for the
hell of it I clicked on the square when Documents was displayed on the full
screen and it reduced itself in size to the normal presentation of a Folder.
It must remain as a mystery why clicking on the square, instead of
enlarging, it reduced the size of the displayed item.
"R. C. White" <rc@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OPz4EtqWIHA.4532@xxxxxx
Quote:
> Hi, Zygy.
>
> I don't understand what you have done. When I copy the Documents folder
> from the Start Menu to the Desktop, or create a Shortcut on my Desktop,
> then click it, I see Windows Explorer in a Normal window, which I can
> resize as with any other window. If I set its Properties to Run in a
> Maximized window, it opens maximized, but the Restore (size) button is
> still there as usual and I can make the window any size I want.
>
> When you say you "copied the Documents Icon from Start to my Task Bar,
> where I also have many others which are in daily use", do you mean to your
> Quick Launch toolbar? When I copy my Documents icon to QL, I still have
> the option to Run in a Normal or Maximized window, so I still don't see
> the problem you are having.
>
> By the way, as you probably know, there are 3 views that we often refer to
> as "full screen". They may look much the same to us users, but Windows
> sees them distinctly differently.
>
> 1. Maximized window - such as when we click the square near the X in the
> upper right corner.
>
> 2. Normal window - stretched to fill the screen.
>
> 3. Full Screen - toggled by pressing the F11 key. (Not available in some
> windows, such as here in WLM's Compose window.)
>
> RC
> --
> R. C. White, CPA
> San Marcos, TX
> rc@xxxxxx
> Microsoft Windows MVP
> (Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64)
>
> "Zygy" <zygy@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:O$ORronWIHA.6044@xxxxxx Quote:
>> Hi, Thank you for the reply. To make operating easier, I copied the
>> Documents Icon from Start to my Task Bar, where I also have many others
>> which are in daily use. However, whichever I click on Documents are
>> displayed over the whole of my monitor screen, which makes things
>> difficult when I have to copy/drag files from Folders in Documents onto a
>> CD. Is there a way of reducing the size of the Documents displayed on the
>> Monitor the same as one can do with any other Folder?
>> "R. C. White" <rc@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:%23UcgOmfWIHA.2000@xxxxxx Quote:
>>> Hi, Zygy.
>>>
>>> You might not have noticed that WinXP's "My Documents" has been renamed
>>> to simply "Documents" in Vista. And it's not simply a name change. The
>>> organizational structure has changed. You should now find your
>>> documents in C:\Users\Zygy\Documents. When you click Start, you should
>>> see Documents in the right-hand column of the Start Menu, under your
>>> user name. Click that to see a list of your documents, or right-click
>>> Documents, then click Explore to open that folder in Windows Explorer.
>>>
>>> The name "My Documents" still exists, but only as a "Junction", pointing
>>> to the new location, for the benefit of legacy applications that have
>>> not yet been updated to the new scheme.
>>>
>>> RC
>>>
>>> "Zygy" <zygy@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>>> news:uugM6WdWIHA.4076@xxxxxx
>>>> In the past when I called up My Documents I was presented with a
>>>> Folder, which occupied about one third of my screen. Recently My
>>>> Documents Folder is being presented so large it occupies the whole of
>>>> the screen and I cannot find anything anywhere to reduce its size! In
>>>> addition some of my other Folders are also being presented sometimes in
>>>> a format which fills the whole of the screen. Will someone please
>>>> advise me how to revert to the format of My Documents Folder, which
>>>> occupied only one third of the screen. Thank you.
>