Small close button in AIM

Hi guys,

I was searching around Google for a while and wasn't able to find any answers. I'm using Home Premium x64 SP1, and the annoyance is AOL Instant Messenger. AIM has small buttons for the top right (minimize, maximize, and close) and for some reason Vista can't detect them as being those buttons. So since Vista's got a thick resize area, I can only mouse over 1/4 of the close button before it changes to the resize cursor.

I was hoping some of you have found a workaround or solution to this, and I'm not interested in using another IM program. I've included a small screen shot in case you don't have AIM installed and can see for yourself how small the buttons are.

So any help would be much appreciated, thanks.

Hi Spd2Last,

Welcome to Vista Forums.

I do not know if this will work for the specific AIM program, but it does make these buttons bigger for all the Vista windows. You might try it and see.

Increase the Caption Buttons "Item Size" in step 6B of this tutorial to a larger number.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/78281-advanced-appearance.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Thanks for the welcome. Unfortunately your suggestion did not work. I believe it is due to the fact that the buttons are AIM's own customized buttons and not the Vista defaults.

Is there a way to be able to thin out the resize area so that it is not as thick as it is? Then I could maybe work around that.

That's what I was afraid of.

There's no way that I know of to resize that area for AIM, but you can right click under that area and select the minimize, maximize, and close option you want instead.

Shawn

So nobody knows of any possible solution to this?

Hi,

I know this thread is oldish, but there had been many views and it still hadn't been resolved.

This is to update those that have been experiencing the same annoying problem. AIM has been updated to version 6.8, and they have enlarged the hit area for the minimize, maximize, and close buttons to a much better size.