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wilsonch:
The problem: I have a netbook. Display is 1024 x 600. In two programs I use there is a window that has no scroll bars or maximize button and cannot be resized, and the window size conflicts with the display.

In one case the window is a large dialog box that is taller than the screen. When I move the window up as high as I can (so the title bar is almost all off the screen) the box's buttons have only their very tops visible at the very bottom of the screen. I'm able to use the keyboard to move the highlight to one button and "click" it.

In the other case the window border size programmatically gets smaller to fit nicely into the 1024 x 600 display. Unfortunately the window's *contents* extend beyond the edge of the window border, and I cannot see or enter data into the lowest sixth or so of the window contents. Nor can I move the window contents within the window.

The only other resolution my display supports is 800 x 600 and I tried that and it didn't solve the problem.

What I think I"m looking for is some sort of display virtualizer thing that would either create a virtual display bigger than the real one, and I could scroll in it to bring different parts of this virtual display onto the real display; or would create a virtual display and reduce its size so that it would show up within the physical display. I've looked at a few virtual desktop utilities but they seem to create virtual desktops that are the same, graphically, as the regular one.

Or a utility that changes the properites of the one window so that its contents are smaller but it doesn't know it, so all of its contents are shown in a smaller window that fits on my screen.

Anyhow, does anyone here know of such utilities?

mouser:
i'd be interested in hearing solutions to this as well.

matt_man22:
See https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=19170.0

Accidentally posted this response in the actual post :(

cmpm:
As a side note and probably not the solution.

Are the font settings for the OS set higher then normal?
Try setting the fonts to normal in your graphic settings,
or perhaps lower, which I haven't tried.

Right click desktop, properties, settings, advanced.
Is where the font control is for XP.
W7 is right click desktop, personalize, display.

Hope that helps.

mouser:
His problem is that netbook screens have such a small vertical resolution (600 pixels) that some applications have dialogs that are taller than the entire screen.

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