How to prevent Notepad++ from Controlling Window and Dialog box size change

[Gagan Adibhatla]

Hello,

I have seen a couple of posts like this here but nobody has posted any answers. So I am going to try to seek help myself. There are a few strange behaviors that NPP exhibits on one of my Win7 machines:

1. When I use Ctrl+F key combination to invoke the find function, the Notepad++ window completely collapses itself to the smallest size possible. The result is that the window shows up in top left corner of monitor 1 collapsed (resized) so small that all one can see are the minimize, maximize and close buttons.

2. When I click on the File Open button, the Open dialog box fills the entire monitor 1. It does not let me move or resize the dialog at all.

Steps I have tried so far

1. Uninstalled NPP
2. delete AppData>Roaming>Notepad++
3. Reboot
4. Checked for registry entries (they weren’t there)
5. Install NPP 6.7.5

No bueno! The program still has the same annoying behavior. Please help!!

[Claudia Frank]

Hello @Gagan-Adibhatla,

remember from the past that I had problems using multimonitor setup and nvidia graphics card.
So a shot in the dark, you use nviewmanager (or whatever its name today is), do you?
If so, stop it and retry if npp still behaves the same.

Cheers
Claudia

[Gagan Adibhatla]

Claudia,

You are quite correct. There is nView Desktop Manager running on my machine, that has two monitors. I disabled the nView Desktop Manager, the problem persists. :(

Regards
Gagan

[Claudia Frank]

Hello Gagan,

I’m still sceptical about nvidia manager not being the problem but nevertheless,
can you check if you have set Settings->Preferences->MISC.->minimize to system tray?
If so can you make a test with enabled and disabled nvidia… ?

Cheers
Claudia