viewing area not visible in top 1/3 of screen

[Todd Thayer]

I started textpad today and the area where the text is typed on the screen is not visible in upper 1/3 of the area. What you see in this area is the program that was previously viewed. This is kind of hard to explain. Here is a link to a picture of textpad problem. You can see Internet Explorer underneath. It looks like you can drag the area back up, but you can not. Please help

http://www.geocities.com/digital_pirate1999/textpad.jpg

[Stephan]

What hardware are you using? What Windows(tm) 'flavour'?

Surely, you have already tried a reboot?
Do you have any tool to check the registry (TuneUp97 or the like)?

If all else fails try to deinstall Textpad, reboot, reinstall, reboot?
That's the 'hard' way, I know - but we're dealing with Windows after all...

Now, the last idea I have: There might be a problem with the video card and/or graphcs driver (although I don't really think that's the reason).

Hope that helped.

Stephan

[Todd Thayer]

Thank you for help.

I am using Windows 98.

I have tried rebooting the computer (we are talking about Windows).

Now i have tried uninstalling, rebooting and installing (did not work either).

I will now find something to check registry, do not think that I currently have anything.

Not sure it is graphics card, all other programs seem to work just fine.

[Andreas]

We had this before. Search the archive.
IIRC you have to delete some registry keys and then the problem will disappear.