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  • [APoint] Minor annoyance revisited

    From Martin Foster@2:310/31.3 to All on Sun Sep 20 11:50:00 2020
    Hello All!

    *** Saturday 04.05.19 at 10:53, Martin Foster wrote to August Abolins:

    [snip]
    Little bell has just rung in my head :-)
    I had a problem with the nVidia card with something else a while ago
    and swapping it out for my AMD Radeon HD 6450 card solved the problem.
    Hmmmmmm, I wonder ???? :)

    Wonder no longer. Nvidia may indeed be the issue.

    To cut a long story short, that turned out not to be the case. The
    real culprit was the width of the window borders. After changing the default setting from "4" to "2", the problem has disappeared - Ha!

    This applies to Win7(64-Bit) but I can't comment on other versions of Windows.

    Dredging up an old problem and just to recap .....

    I was having problems with AKA's being cropped at the right-hand end of
    the message reader window in my old Win7(64-Bit) install of APoint, which
    was solved as outlined above. However, I don't seem to be able to use that method with my Win10(64-Bit) install of APoint but after all this time,
    I've finally found the solution .....

    Install the Winaero Tweaker tool from https://winaero.com

    Once installed, do the following:
    [1] In the "Appearance Section", click on "Aero Lite" and then click on "Enable Aero Lite(default)"

    [2] In the "Advanced Appearance Settings" section, click on "Window
    Borders", change the "Border Padding" from "4" to "0" and then click the "Apply changes" button.

    Problem solved! :-)))

    There's *LOTS* of other stuff that can be tweaked, have fun :-)

    Regards,
    Martin

    --- OpenXP 5.0.46
    * Origin: Bitz-Box - Bradford - UK (2:310/31.3)
  • From August Abolins@2:221/1.58 to Martin Foster on Sun Sep 27 09:19:00 2020
    Hello Martin!

    ** On Sunday 20.09.20 - 11:50, Martin Foster wrote to All:


    Install the Winaero Tweaker tool from https://winaero.com

    This tip has also been added in the [*2] footnote at:

    https://kolico.ca/fidonet/echos/points/

    --
    ../|ug

    --- OpenXP 5.0.46
    * Origin: ----------Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate.---------- (2:221/1.58)
  • From Martin Foster@2:310/31.3 to August Abolins on Mon Sep 28 09:31:00 2020
    Hello August!

    *** Sunday 27.09.20 at 09:19, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:

    Install the Winaero Tweaker tool from https://winaero.com

    This tip has also been added in the [*2] footnote at:

    https://kolico.ca/fidonet/echos/points/

    Thanks for that.

    Regards,
    Martin

    --- OpenXP 5.0.46
    * Origin: Bitz-Box - Bradford - UK (2:310/31.3)
  • From Martin Foster@2:280/464.27 to August Abolins on Sat Jan 21 11:38:20 2023
    Hello August!

    *** 27/09/2020 09:18:59, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:

    Install the Winaero Tweaker tool from https://winaero.com

    This tip has also been added in the [*2] footnote at:

    https://kolico.ca/fidonet/echos/points/

    I'd never been all that keen on installing a piece of software just to tweak one single setting but having said that, it does the job and much more besides.

    However, I've finally stumbled across a registry tweak that does the job which, IMO, is a better way of achieving the same thing:

    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics\

    - Right-click on "PaddedBorderWidth"

    - Click "Modify"

    - Change the default "Value data" from -60 to -20

    - REBOOT Windows

    This works a treat on my Win11(22H2)(64-Bit) install but whether it works on older versions of Win11 or on Win10, I really cannot say.

    Regards,
    Martin

    --- APoint 1.25
    * Origin: Bitz-Box - Bradford - UK (2:280/464.27)
  • From August Abolins@2:221/1.58 to Martin Foster on Sat Jan 21 08:13:00 2023
    Hello Martin Foster!

    ** On Saturday 21.01.23 - 11:38, Martin Foster wrote to August Abolins:

    https://kolico.ca/fidonet/echos/points/

    Hmmm.. this isn't loading properly anymore. Same behaviour
    for you?

    --
    ../|ug

    --- OpenXP 5.0.51
    * Origin: The ONLY point that matters! --> . <-- (2:221/1.58)
  • From Martin Foster@2:280/464.27 to August Abolins on Sat Jan 21 13:38:10 2023
    Hello August!

    *** 21/01/2023 08:13:00, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:

    https://kolico.ca/fidonet/echos/points/

    Hmmm.. this isn't loading properly anymore. Same behaviour
    for you?

    Looks just fine to me.

    Regards,
    Martin

    --- APoint 1.25
    * Origin: Bitz-Box - Bradford - UK (2:280/464.27)