Suddenly I’ve got this weird Resize problem. I didn’t have it until a couple
of hours ago. I didn’t install anything new and even tried to reboot
the machine since to get rid of the problem.
What happens is if I now try to resize any window on my machine, I can only
increase/decrease it in huge quanity of pixels… If I open the notepad it’s a
1/4 screen window, and I can only expand it horizontaly to full width
or vertically to full height. And now that I think of it, it seems that earlier in
the day, my sizing was already getting worse, my windows resizing was only
able to move in steps of 20 pixels… maybe it’s the Graphic card that has a
problem (heat?). I tried to switch off the machine to cool it down, but that didn’t
help. I tried installing back a simple graphic driver like VGA instaed of the
Western Digital 90C31 driver, to see if the problem is related to the driver,
but that is not the case. I even tried botting with Windows 95, but there I
cannot replicate the problem, everything seems fine. I kind of baffled…
Any help is appreciated…
Erik Bussink 08-Apr-1995
As I had problems send this mail, I try to fix it myslef, and I found the
answer. Because some other people might get it, I put a post here with the
Microsoft knowledge base answer. Just go to the Desktop in the Control Panel
and set the granularity to 1, et voila….
Erik Bussink 09-Apr-1995
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The information in this article applies to:
– Microsoft Windows NT Workstation version 3.5
– Microsoft Windows NT Server version 3.5
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SYMPTOMS
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After you update Windows NT version 3.5 to Service Pack 2, the Granularity
value for Sizing Grid changes when you choose Desktop in Control Panel, log
off and log back on, and choose Desktop in Control Panel again. The
Granularity value in Desktop of Control Panel increases in increments of 8.
For example, if Granularity is set to 1, it changes to 8 the next time you
choose Desktop in Control Panel after you log off and log back on (and from
8 to 64 even though the maximum value for Granularity is 49).
CAUSE
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This problem only occurs if you choose Desktop in Control Panel after each
successive logon.
STATUS
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Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Windows NT version 3.5. A
fix to this problem is in development, but has not been regression-tested
and may be destabilizing in production environments. Microsoft does not
recommend implementing this fix at this time. Contact Microsoft Product
Support Services for more information on the availability of this fix.
KBCategory: kbenv kbbug3.50 kbfix3.50
KBSubcategory: ntconfig
Additional reference words: prodnt 3.50
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Erik Bussink, Final Year Computer Science Student in Brunel University, UK
cs91…@brunel.ac.uk or http://http2.brunel.ac.uk:8080/~cs91eeb/
And for local users in Brunel, http://mipc-15.brunel.ac.uk:8080/home.html