Yes, I caught that on my own, once I thought about it. Appreciate your response, Rob . Thanks, Bob T.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Bell" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Cc: "Bob Tellefsen" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 7:17 PM Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] This has me stumped > One other thing... If you still don't find your start bar once you resize > the display, then the bar itself may have been resized down to 'nothing'. > Move your mouse to the bottom of the screen and see if the cursor changes > to an up/down arrow. If so, click there and drag upwards to expand the > size of the bar. > > Rob > > Rob Bell wrote: > >> That's call 'panning'. It happens on a Windows system running a >> resolution higher than the actual physical LCD supports. There is a >> setting somewhere that controls whether that is allowed to happen or not >> (a ThinkPad setting), but the simplest way to eliminate the issue is to >> just set the Windows display resolution to the native resolution of the >> LCD (i.e. use 1280x1024 if that's what your LCD supports). Right-click >> anywhere on an empty area of your Desktop, choose 'properties', choose >> the 'settings' tab, then slide the resolution slider to the left to >> reduce resolution. >> >> As the the answer to your second question, that is likely related. If >> you move your mouse 'below' the bottom of the screen it should pan that >> way too and get you down to your start bar. >> >> Rob >> >> >> Bob Tellefsen wrote: >> >> >>>I just installed Win2000Pro on my T22 TP, and it seems to be working >>>fine. Only thing is, the desktop seems to be larger than the LCD screen. >>>If I move the cursor to the left edge of the screen, the desktop scrolls >>>to the right so I can see what had been off-screen. Same for right, top >>>and bottom edges as well. >>>I've been through the BIOS and Control Panel\Display looking for anything >>>that might affect this. Nothing so far. Never seen this before. >>>Anybody know what I can do to get the desktop back to the size of the >>>LCD? >>> >>>Second question, possibly related to the one above, is I've lost the >>>toolbar >>>across the bottom of the screen, with the Start button at the left. >>>Can't >>>figure out what has become of it. Anybody know what I can do to bring it >>>back? >>> >>>Thanks much for any help. >>>Bob T. > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
