An easier way to click off-screen buttons in Display Properties?

[imported_Kiwi]

Once in awhile, running Win98 and/ or W2K, I need to do something in Safe Mode that ends up killing off my higher resolution settings on one system or another. The dialog box fills up the entire screen and puts the final row of buttons out of sight below the bottom of the window. What I've done is keep on tabbing and counting the tab presses, after turning to another PC and bringing up the Display Properties Dialog boxes to count buttons/ tabs on.

Is my workaround the only practical answer to this conflict between old stuff and new stuff?

Is there a way to get that box to fit inside the confines of a modern display when stuck in low resolution?


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[mechBgon]

If they're just slightly out of reach, try dragging the whole Windows Taskbar from its normal location at the bottom of the screen, over to the side or top of the screen, so it isn't covering the buttons up.

(edit: you'll need to right-click the Taskbar and uncheck Lock Taskbar first)

 

[oog]

from the titlebar, you should be able to select on the upper left corner and choose move. click an arrow button to "grab" the window, and then move it with your mouse until you can see the buttons you need. the other alternative is to findout the shortcut for the button and access it with the right alt-key combination. if you need to, you can turn on accessibility settings to have it read to you button names as well.

 

[imported_Kiwi]

Originally posted by: oog
from the titlebar, you should be able to select on the upper left corner and choose move. click an arrow button to "grab" the window, and then move it with your mouse until you can see the buttons you need. the other alternative is to findout the shortcut for the button and access it with the right alt-key combination. if you need to, you can turn on accessibility settings to have it read to you button names as well.

That sounds like a winner! I forget some stuff like that when I don't need to grab entire elements by anything other than title bars to drag them around, in large displays with high resolutions settings!

And my other respondent, thanks also, but this last time that wouldn't have been quite enough to reach the buttons. I have several PC's scattered around the place, networked together, and it's an unusual occurrence that disturbs the Properties Setting. This occasion really was a goofy one, too!

One cat who lives here had spent a couple of months pouting about something or other, and hadn't come into the computer room at all while I swapped out some UPS's in here from Tripplite to APC, and vertically oriented ones to horizontal ones. She finally came in yesterday, and one of her first investigations took her past a new UPS. Of course she had to step on the power switch!

I have no idea what was going on (with Win98se running then) at that moment, but I ended up uninstalling the graphics drivers and reinstalling them. During that process, I wanted to reset the resolutions a couple of times.


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[CrispyFried]

ALT + spacebar and the arrow keys will do that too.