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when I drag an application window near the edge of the screen, the window automatically switches to full screen. Is there a way to turn this behavior off? It's driving me nuts!

Hi look at this image .. Link Removed due to 404 Error Link Removed You see i have 2 black sides... I installed Windows 7 , 64-bit drivers correctly. Resolution is 1280*1024 (on game) 4:3 Full screen. I have the problem with the black sides with all steam games. Got latest drivers for...

On my dell studio xps 13 with Windows 7 Build 7100 installed, my computer frequently minimizes out of full screen games spontaneously. For example, when I'm playing Battlefield 2142 or Halo 2, I start up the game, within a few seconds, the game will become minimized without me pressing alt+tab...

Hi. My laptop is running the W7 RC without any problems, EXCEPT normally in general use, my monitor is in full screen mode, no problems what so ever. If I try run say Flight Simulator 2004, the program changes its res automatically to 800x600 to fill the screen. and back to 1440x900 for...

I have installed W7 on my AMDX2 3800 / Nvidia FX5500 with the 96.85 forceware drivers. I am using an lcd panel and a tv as secondary screen on S-video. I was quite happy with W7 as well as with MCE; MCE on W7 was the reason to move to W7. Until to my surprise, with some actions, the PC freezes...

Hi, I think this is the correct forum to post this and I will try to explain my issue as clearly as possible. When running IE8 if you're on a site and you click a link that creates a pop up window, I cannot find a way to make this pop up window bigger or even full screen? For games especially...

when moving the mouse in full screen it doesn't show and whenever i go to show controls in full screen mode and check the box it uncheck back by itself so any thoughts?!! TIA

Hey there. Ive tried to search the net for a similar problem, but havent been able to find it anywhere. Anyways... Everytime I start Media Center or try to open a fullscreen program - and other times without reasons explainable, my screen messes up and I cant continue whatever I am doing in...

Flashing Windows - With video evidence I've tried googling this, but due to the words i'm using to describe the problem, I only seem to get hits about Windows, Adobe Flash, or 7-zip. When certain programs are running, they will flash out, and in again (as though disappearing, then reopening...

hi.. After I installed Windows 7 RC, I can't watch a DVD-movie without it crashing (BSoD) everytime I play the dvd (past the menues) it take 10min and 50sec before it crashes my graphics driver... (Mobile Intel(R) 965 Express Chipset Family (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM 1.1) ) first the...

I use ATI 7500 driver and when viewing full screen videos on youtube they dont show but when viewing full screen on vlc or windows media player it would work? What should I do?

So, I'm running 64bit RC and because of Cisco's refusal to make a 64bit VPN client, I'm pretty much stuck with running a Virtual PC so that I can use the VPN to RDP into my servers.. Well, I downloaded the new Virtual PC Beta, and it's really becoming a show stopper for me. I'll go back to...

Sorry for the vague heading, and I anot even sure if I can explaint he problem but i will try. I play a game called Eve - its an online space game (sad I know but hey ho). the game can play in full screen mode or windowed mode. I have to play in windowed mode as i have dual screens and if you...

I'm having an odd issue with my windows 7 install, build 7077. In the past few days whenever I play a full screen game it works fine for about 15-20 minutes, and then will minimize, showing my desktop for a few seconds, before popping back into the game. I haven't changed any settings in windows...

I have recently installed Windows 7 Build 7068 x64 and encountered a few problems #1 - I have an ATI 4870x2 - I installed the actual Win7 drivers that ATI has and they seemed to install correctly but they did'nt ask me to "restart" like they should, and the CCC (Catalyst Control Center) would...

Both me and a friend of mine both have vista laptops, every so often when you play video from say youtube or stream tv shows from nbc.com the video freezes but audio continues, minimize it and the video is still playing and seem like there is nothing wrong. Sometimes it works fine but this...

Is there any way of getting the Vista way of working for the sidebar gadgets? What I want is for them to be always visible (which I can do) but for full screen applications to stop before they get to the edge of the screen - in fact to the left of the gadgets. the current way of working means...

Hi, When I open youtube videos or google videos using my windows vista computer, I can see those videos in normal mode, but as soon as I choose to see them in full screen mode, all I see is a black screen but i can hear audio. Is this is a problem with my computer or this is a know windows...

Ok, Kinda a weird problem.. I have a really old game that i love to play and worked on all my op systems except vista.. I'm so mad. Its called starsiege tribes and it was meant to be run on windows 98. But i really wanna play it and cant figure out why it only opens in a window that i cant play...

Im running Windows Vista Starter RC2 Build 5744 and when I full screen my widescreen videos in Windows Media Player, instead of the top and bottom bars being black in widescreen, they are green. I looked in preferences and tryed different colour options but it seemed none of them worked. Is...