Taskbar shrinks when IE or Outlook opens

My taskbar line shrinks down on the bottom of the screen when I open IE
(version 6.0.2800) or Outlook 2000. It stays the same height when I open
WORD or Excel. When it shrinks down, the icons get so far down that I cannot
tell what they are.

Have had this problem a long time and cannot stand it anymore. Any advice?

Have the taskbar set to "Always On Top" and NO autohide feature. I want to
taksbar to always be visible no matter what else is open.

Your problem sounds very much the sort of effect one might see with an old
or incompatible video driver. What video card/graphics chip does your PC
have? What version is the driver?
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP



LohnesLink wrote:

My taskbar line shrinks down on the bottom of the screen when I open
IE (version 6.0.2800) or Outlook 2000. It stays the same height when
I open WORD or Excel. When it shrinks down, the icons get so far
down that I cannot tell what they are.

Have had this problem a long time and cannot stand it anymore. Any
advice?

Have the taskbar set to "Always On Top" and NO autohide feature. I
want to taksbar to always be visible no matter what else is open.

Mike - how can I find this info on video driver? Thanks.

"Mike M" wrote:

Your problem sounds very much the sort of effect one might see with an old
or incompatible video driver. What video card/graphics chip does your PC
have? What version is the driver?
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP



LohnesLink wrote:

My taskbar line shrinks down on the bottom of the screen when I open
IE (version 6.0.2800) or Outlook 2000. It stays the same height when
I open WORD or Excel. When it shrinks down, the icons get so far
down that I cannot tell what they are.

Have had this problem a long time and cannot stand it anymore. Any
advice?

Have the taskbar set to "Always On Top" and NO autohide feature. I
want to taksbar to always be visible no matter what else is open.

Control Panel | System | Device Manager, navigate to and expand the
Display adapters entry, select adapter, right click and the Properties.
Driver details can be found on the Driver tab.

Also right click on desktop, Properties, Settings, Advanced, Adapter will
tell you about your graphics chip/adapter.

A useful free application that will provide all this information and more
is Everest Home Edition which can be downloaded from
http://www.lavalys.com/products/over...?pid=1&lang=en.
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP




LohnesLink wrote:

Mike - how can I find this info on video driver? Thanks.

The driver is NVIDIA version 4.12.01.0634 - a 32MB NVIDIA
GeForce2 MX (Dell). I selected "Update Automatically" via
both the Control Panel option and also the desktop
option. Both times, the system came back with "Most
current version is already installed." So, I think it
must be up-to-date. The shrinking is still occurring.
Any other ideas? Thanks for you help.

-----Original Message-----
Control Panel | System | Device Manager, navigate to and
expand the
Display adapters entry, select adapter, right click and
the Properties.
Driver details can be found on the Driver tab.

Also right click on desktop, Properties, Settings,
Advanced, Adapter will
tell you about your graphics chip/adapter.

A useful free application that will provide all this
information and more
is Everest Home Edition which can be downloaded from
http://www.lavalys.com/products/over...?pid=1&lang=en.
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP




LohnesLink wrote:

Mike - how can I find this info on video driver?
Thanks.

.

Drivers are best maintained via the manufacturer's web site
(http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp) rather than the
Windows Update site. The latest version appears to be v61.76 dated 20
July 2004. Older versions of nVidia drivers for Win Me are available
(http://www.nvidia.com/object/win9x_archive.html) and you might want to
start by trying one of those
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP



LohnesLink wrote:

The driver is NVIDIA version 4.12.01.0634 - a 32MB NVIDIA
GeForce2 MX (Dell). I selected "Update Automatically" via
both the Control Panel option and also the desktop
option. Both times, the system came back with "Most
current version is already installed." So, I think it
must be up-to-date. The shrinking is still occurring.
Any other ideas? Thanks for you help.

Had a techie service my machine for some registry issues
and whilst here, he pressed a few buttons located directly
on the monitor itself and FIXED THE PROBLEM!! The monitor
is a Trinitron by Dell that has the huge display screen.
I feel like a dope having spent hours on this on 2
separate occasions but at least it's fixed. Thanks for
all the help I've received on this website.

-----Original Message-----
Drivers are best maintained via the manufacturer's web
site
(http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp)
rather than the
Windows Update site. The latest version appears to be
v61.76 dated 20
July 2004. Older versions of nVidia drivers for Win Me
are available
(http://www.nvidia.com/object/win9x_archive.html) and you
might want to
start by trying one of those
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP



LohnesLink wrote:

The driver is NVIDIA version 4.12.01.0634 - a 32MB
NVIDIA
GeForce2 MX (Dell). I selected "Update Automatically"
via
both the Control Panel option and also the desktop
option. Both times, the system came back with "Most
current version is already installed." So, I think it
must be up-to-date. The shrinking is still occurring.
Any other ideas? Thanks for you help.

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