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June 7

New windows in Windows

When one launches a program in Windows, it will typically open in a window. Windows has settings, presumably, for where this window will be created, and how large it will be. Is there some way I can find these settings and change them?

This has been a mild annoyance since Windows 95, but now that Windows has decided that Firefox should launch on my second monitor - which is almost always off - it's actually becoming a problem. Vimescarrot (talk) 01:20, 7 June 2014 (UTC)

The only setting I remember is in a .LNK file, where you can pick either windowed or full-screen.

For a programmer, it's almost trivially easy (CreateWindow() API) but in my experience, the support from the OS is flaky at best. There are cases where it works well (Explorer, Firefox, and Visual Studio), but all of these could have their own code to remember their own settings and use CreateWindow() in a clever way. (The default way of using CreateWindow() seems to be with CW_USEDEFAULT, which means "put my window where it annoys the user the most".) - ¡Ouch! (^{hurt me} / _{more pain}) 06:16, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

Lovely. Well...Thanks for the help. Vimescarrot (talk) 08:41, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

You could try opening a bug with Firefox. Using a default CreateWindow call in Windows should never put it off the screen, so Firefox is likely telling Windows where to put it. Katie R (talk) 12:01, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

Problems downloading from Mediafire

Any file I try to download from Mediafire immediatly crashes my internet. How can a web page switch off my internet connection? So i go to the mediafile file i want, the page never fully loads, the space for the adverts is constantly trying to load. Ive waited for 10 minutes for it to load and still nothing. Some of the ads that are trying to load appear to be from facebook, firefox says "waiting for facebook.com...." in the bottom left. I do not have a facebook account, would this be relevent? Ive tried this with many different mediafire files.

I give up waiting for the page to fully load and click on the green panel to download my file. And immediatly my internet drops out! everytime.

Ive created a free account with mediafire, this didnt help.

So Ive tried this with chrome and firefox. Ive disabled all add-ons for both browsers. Ive cleared the cache in both browsers. I think this has only started about two weeks ago, before then things were fine. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Iiidonkeyiii (talk • contribs) 01:39, 7 June 2014 (UTC)

Do you live in a country with censorship? F (talk) 04:16, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

In australia. No more censorship than any other western country I think. Also Im trying to get completely legal files, nothing illegal. Also other file download sites work fine, it just mediafire that does this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Iiidonkeyiii (talk • contribs) 09:06, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

I don't know anything about Mediafire myself (links would be helpful). If you can "copy link location" for the link you click that crashes your internet connection that would be especially helpful. Please explain how thoroughly the internet connection crashes - do you have to turn the router off and on, for example? It might also help to specify what antivirus programs you run, since at least in theory such a program might zealously interfere with the overall connection. Wnt (talk) 15:33, 8 June 2014 (UTC)