On 8 Mar 99, at 1:57, Larry Atlow wrote:

> I know this has probably been discussed before, but can anyone tell
> me where I can find information about changing the default location
> and size of windows and their font attributes in Windows 95 or
> Windows 98. I know that some of this information used to be in
> CONTROL.INI in Windows 3.x, but I don't know where it might be now.
> I know it may not be the same for any and all windows but it seems as
> though it should be.  Could it be somewhere in the registry?  Is
> there a utility that could simplify such a task?  Is there a book or
> a magazine article or a Web site/page that discusses ways to do this?
>  I would like to know how to do this for any program/window.  It
> would be of great help to me. TIA.

  Windows will create a window with the location and attributes
specified by the application that owns it.  Very often, an application
will let Windows pick the location -- if you run a bunch of these at
once and don't move them around, you'll see the windows are "cascaded"
on the screen.  A few applications will let you position a window where
you want it, and save that position for future use.

  I believe there's also a default font for windows, but few
applications (Notepad?) rely on it.  Programs that provide text windows
may give options to choose a font, but dialogs have this info hard-
coded in the resource data.

  It does seem that these are things that *could* be managed centrally,
but the defaults provided by Windows are too minimal to provide the
features you seek on a global basis.


David G

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