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Jonathan Wood5 said:After spending quite a bit of time tinkering with my PC, I thought everything was finally sorted out. Today, however, I ran into a snag. I'm running Windows 7. When I open a window—say, My Computer—and try to drag it left or right, only the frame moves, not the entire window content. It isn't a disaster, but I know for a fact that the whole image used to move with the frame. During my maintenance session, the only extra thing I installed was a Microsoft partition manager. I've already uninstalled it, but the issue persists.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to get things back to the way they were?
Thanks.
This drove me absolutely insane.
And I ended up fixing it in the most ridiculous way possible.
First, I downloaded some random junk from the web that sets https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=us&ei=...indows&spell=1 to 1, put it in my startup folder... no luck.
Obviously, it was being reset to 0 before anything else could even run.
So, I settled on a workaround: I set up a new task in the Task Scheduler that runs a small program to force the "dragfullwindows" value in the registry back to 1. The trigger is user logon, and I added a one-minute delay.
It’s a stupid way to handle it, but it works.
I still have no clue why on earth that damn "dragfullwindow" setting keeps reverting to zero.
God bless Windows.