FC staying off screen

[the_prefect]

Hello! First of all ... I love it! Nevertheless ...

The incident

I use FC 2007.05a on Vista.
I use dual-head (additional monitor attached to my notebook) from time to time.
When I forget to move FC back to the primary screen it stay on the secondary on the next restart (as the position gets stored in the .ini file).
This is true, even if the secondary monitor is unconfigured on the system. i.e. the window is shown in the void: the window is effectively gone (position above X-coord 1680) and cannot trivially be made visible again ... no way to move it, that I'd know.
Usually one would use the taskbar and rightclick->move to move the window back in, regrettably FC does not offer move in the taskbar props at all.

The work-around
Make sure FC is currently not running (closing works on the taskbar). Go to the User->AppData->Roaming->FreeCommander directory and edit the FreeCommander.ini file. There in the first line is the stored window position. Set the first two values to 1. Save the file and start FC ... welcome back to freedom of command!

Solving the problem
Somebody please add a check to the start of FC wether the stored window-positions actually make sense at all with current setup and e.g. ignore them if not?

Regards,
the_prefect

[Marek]

Could you try the current version of FC?

[the_prefect]

The actual version .10a does fine!

If the position is offscreen, the offscreen coordinate get reset.

Thanks!

Adrian

PS: Sorry for not believing in the "update to actual first". Should have known better!

[amunoto]

I have had this problem with the old version, too.
I installed the latest version 2008.06, but it didn't help.
I edited the ini-file and it was fine.
I do not know if this problem will reoccur, though. In this case, I'd post again.
Insight so far: Installation of latest version does not repair existing problem instance.

Thx for the great software, guys!
Hauke