CoJo,
About Your OE Window Size Problem:
I assume what you're describing is a window that's too big to fit on the screen. I've seen this before; it plagued me over a 3-month period. When it first started, overcoming it was easier, and it didn't happen often, perhaps once every other week. As time went on it happened more frequently, sometimes as often as 3-4 times a day, and it got harder to correct. Eventually it stopped on its own. It occurred one more time after that, about 6 months later, then never happened again. It normally occurred in the same application but not always, and I'm afraid I don't remember which one.
The computer was running either Windows NT or Windows 98SE. (I can't remember whether it happened on my desktop or my laptop.) IIRC, and it's hard because it was at least 2 1/2 years ago, at first minimizing/maximizing/restoring the window corrected it. Then that stopped having any effect, and I had to close and restart the application. Occasionally, the only way to deal with it was to shutdown and reboot.
Does it happen to any application besides OE?
About Your Color Bleeding Problem:
Did you recently change any display adaptor or monitor settings like resolution, color depth, refresh rate, DPI, hardware acceleration?
About Your Corrupted Font Problem:
Do the messages that don't display correctly all come from the same people, or is the effect random?
If you receive one new message from a particular person that displays incorrectly, are all the following messages displayed incorrectly? Do that person's older messages still display properly.
If you forward one of the bad messages to someone else, can it be viewed properly? If that person then forwards it back to you, can you view it properly?
Does this happen with a specific font or set of fonts, or is it across the board?
Are you viewing your mail in HTML format or plain text format?
When you changed the font setting in OE, did you change any encoding settings?
Did you recently change any appearance settings like normal vs. large vs extra large font size, any effects like font smoothing or advanced settings changes?
About Your Changing Font Problem:
Do you use a lot of different fonts, I mean some huge number like 20 or 30? The reason I ask is that Windows tries to load the fonts you use most often when it starts, to improve application performance. At least it did at one time. Limiting the number of fonts one used was one recommendation to increase system performance, by reducing the OS's memory footprint and hence and lower the amount of page swapping. I wonder if there's a limit to the number of fonts Windows will keep resident at one time and what happens if it is exceeded?
Did these problems all show up at the same time, one right after the other, or some other pattern you've noticed? Does starting Windows in Safe Mode have any impact?
Regards,
Hornus
