What am I doing?... (computer Q)

[Tezcatlipoca]

If you have nothing more constructive to offer than the usual tired old response that every computer snob uses to make believe they do know something about PCs, please refrain from posting on this thread, thank you.

 

Whilst Barra's delivery wasn't especially helpful, his point remains; FireFox is simply a superior browser to IE, and installing it may resolve your issue. If nothing else, it will improve your online security, as well as providing a whole host of extra features. There's a reason Vista's developers worked with Mozilla to hard-code greater FF compatability into the operating system...

 

If you prefer not to change, you could try reinstalling IE (Internet Explorer: Home Page), not forgetting to backup any favourites or bookmarks first (from File, then Import/Export).

 

If you are still getting problems, or would rather not reinstall, would it be possible to grab a copy of the screen when this happens and either post it up here or slap it into Imageshack or Photobucket? I'd be very grateful for the chance to see exactly what is happening on your system.

[Tezcatlipoca]

Because I like IE7. I am comfortable with it. Despite what seem to be hardly more than urban myths these days, my PC is not riddled with spyware and I find FF cumbersome, slow and difficult to navigate: I-DO-NOT-LIKE-IT, now would the FFlovers get off my bloody case, PLEASE?

 

You're mistaking advice for criticism. You are not being condemed you for your choice of browser, indeed what you choose to run on your PC is frankly your own business; it is simply being pointed out that FF is a superior browser, and that using it will almost certainly resolve your immediate issue. To put it another way, it is one solution to the problem you have posted.

However, if you are confortable with IE, then we'll try to find another solution.

 

Once again, if it is not the F11 option, are you able to take a screenshot of what is happening to you? It might help to resolve the issue if we can see exactly what is happening.

[Tezcatlipoca]

when you say FF is a superior browser, it is not being objective. FF is a superior browser to YOU.

 

I'm afraid this is not the case. As a web developer, I have looked extensively at pretty much all the browsers. Whether you like it or not, it is a simple fact that one surpasses the others in almost every respect, and such unbiased comparison is arguably the very definition of objectivity. That is of course a different thing from personal choice, or the ability to use the software.

However, I don't really want to get into lengthy and detailed explainations here as I don't want to see the thread derailed from the issue at hand; viz. your problem with IE's window becomming unusable on suspected keystrokes.

 

Returning to the issue at hand, I am unplagued by these problems, so without more of an idea as to exactly what is happening for you, it is difficult to know what to suggest. A search of Google seems to yield very little that matches your descriptions ("the screen minimises to a full page"), hence my request for a screenshot.

I'm wondering, however, if this may not be a Vista issue, rather an IE7 one. Has this always, albeit infrequently, happned on the Vista machine?

[Tezcatlipoca]

You're not talking about dynamic sizing, are you?

 

IE7 supports the following standards for keyboard shortcuts for sizing:

 

Ctrl & 0 = Sets the default font size

Ctrl & + = Increases the screen size

Ctrl & Mousewheel Down = As above

Ctrl & - = Decreases the screen size

Ctrl & Mousewheel Up = As above

 

Please try using the above commands to decrease the screen. Is this what's happening to you?

[Tezcatlipoca]

Glad I could be of help!