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Guest sengsational
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This happened to me on several machines. This time I did something

about it. I searched the registry and found that you just need to

delete the "InitialPosition" key. Buggy crap. This has been in there

since at least Windows 98.

 

Symptom:

 

Windows Photo Editor only shows in full screen. If you try to make it

windowed, it will "disappear", but still have a task bar icon, which

you can maximize back to full screen.

 

Solution:

 

regedit HKEY_USERS > (latest) > Software > Microsoft > Photo Editor >

3.0 > Microsoft Photo Editor

 

Delete InitialPosition key.

 

--Dale--

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Guest Twayne
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Re: Microsoft Photo Editor disappears

 

> This happened to me on several machines. This time I did something

> about it. I searched the registry and found that you just need to

> delete the "InitialPosition" key. Buggy crap. This has been in there

> since at least Windows 98.

>

> Symptom:

>

> Windows Photo Editor only shows in full screen. If you try to make it

> windowed, it will "disappear", but still have a task bar icon, which

> you can maximize back to full screen.

>

> Solution:

>

> regedit HKEY_USERS > (latest) > Software > Microsoft > Photo Editor >

> 3.0 > Microsoft Photo Editor

>

> Delete InitialPosition key.

>

> --Dale--

 

That sounds like data corruption; no such problems here on XP Pro SP2+.

Guest Adam Leinss
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Re: Microsoft Photo Editor disappears

 

"Twayne" <nobody@devnull.spamcop.net> wrote in news:#6g58pGCJHA.4724

@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl:

>> This happened to me on several machines. This time I did something

>> about it. I searched the registry and found that you just need to

>> delete the "InitialPosition" key. Buggy crap. This has been in there

>> since at least Windows 98.

 

We dumped it long ago and went with Windows Picture and Fax viewer for

picture viewing (which is about 95% of our users).

 

If user needs to edit pictures, we install Photofiltre.

 

Adam


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