winamp window fallen off edge of world. How do I get it back?

the media window has somehow set itself off the top of the screen. I
can't get to the top bar of that window to bring it down. If I try to
drag the window it resizes it and I can't see the top of the media
library. I thought I would change screen resoultions and it would put it
in the middle of the screen and that didn't work. How do I get this
window back into the middle of my screen?

pic here


http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~cowboyz/w.jpg

Many thanx in advance. Oh and sorry for crap quality pic but I am on
dialup at the moment.

 

Position monitor so that you sit squarely in front of it, and using your
hand or perhaps a ruler, gently tap the right hand side of the monitor. The
vibration will cause the window to slide downwards. Click on it's title to
move it when it appears.

Woger's advice you physically position the monitor's higher will NOT work,
as any fool can see: doing so will result in your task bar disappearing off
the bottom of the screen.

Do NOT shake the monitor as others suggest. This may lodge it even further
under the bezel of the monitor and require professional repairs.

Neither should you try ramming your mouse pointer under the bezel with your
ruler as this may result in BOTH being jammed up there.

Some people have had success deleting/modifying the winamp.ini (or some
such) file from the winamp directory. I do not recommend such unlikely
tactics however.

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and shirt. It looked like I murdered 20 people with a fork... anyway, I
walked into a convieniance store down the street and said my girlfriend
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Yeh, can't see what you are listening to ;-)

In Winamp.ini check

snap=1
snaplen=10

You might be able to make it reappear by increasing the snaplen=
figure.

Further down there is also

keeponscreen=1

Is that a '1' or '0' ? Change it to '1'

 

Could also try changing a skin. That might 'reset' it.

 

<ALT> S

 

It is/was a 1. Damn computer thinks I should have a 40'' monitor I think.

changing skin fixed it . thanx. never would have thought of that. Oh
the simplicity

 

I figured out how to repair it. After many searches i found lots of info
that said not to run it under windows so I moved my entire computer to the
middle of the room and that fixed the problem.

I don't see Wogers posts at the moment. I am just a little busy for a
crapTM lesson.

I already did shake the monitor but I found a good professional in the
paper under "candy". Fortunately the above approach fixed my problem.

tried modifying ini but had trouble finding exact settings and made things
worse!





BTW.. If you never saw my other post.. changing skin fixed problem.

 

Fixed now, but for future reference, windows can be moved using the
keyboard:

- Make the window active (it has the focus)
- Alt+SpaceBar
- M (Move)
- Use arrow keys to move the window about (down)
- Press Enter to stop moving

Cheers,
Mark

 

There is a general fix to this. I have had Word do it to me, and I
occasionally end up with programs running on the second monitor of my
laptop, but no monitor is connected.

1) Use <Alt><Tab> to put the focus on the errant application.
2) Press <Alt><Spacebar> to open the system menu
3) Press M to select move.
4) Use the arrow keys to move the window.

It the app is running maximised on a second monitor, you might need to
repeat step 2, then R to restore it as a movable window.

Regards

Ron

 

Cool, that works. Thanks, I'll *try* to remember it.

 

cowboyz wrote:

<snip>

S'cuse my ignorance but how does one take a screenshot? Windows help is of
absolutely no use.

Thanks,

 

hit the print screen button, and then paste it to something like paint was
how I used to do it

 

this method works for all windows except winamp (or at least my one)
FIIK.

 

yep,. those 3 buttons above insert/home/pigup actually do something. I
paste to paint on this occasion but remember to save to jpg instead of the
default bmp format for us guys on dialup.

 

yep. works for every app except winamp. I think is is because I am
dealing with winamps daughter windows rather than the app itself so
windows doesn't know where the windows are.

 

You are dead correct. Winamp has removed the system menu, so it can't be
controlled from keyboard commands on that menu.

In contrast, Windows Media Player presents a similar "prettyfied" window as
its main window. But <alt> <space> shocks it into looking far more normal,
and produces a system menu.

Just shows the odd side-effects of ignoring standards.

Regards

Ron

 

LOL, I know, I use the <Print Scrn> all the time playing Diablo 2 and then
upload the pic to a website for interested parties. When you do that
p[laying D2 in just puts a jpeg in your D2 folder and gives it a number just
after the last one (I have nearly 300 in there, must clean some out). I was
hitting print scrren in windows, then looking in the temp file etc. for
where ot would be stored.

Duh!

Oh yeah. Thanks to both you and Shane.

 

I was going to post that, but first checked Winamp (didn't want to make a
fool of myself) and found that the Alt+Spacebar did nothing. Damn, it
works with every other window!

 

Oh, good. That's some real innovation there

He probably kill filed it with one of his anti teenager filters.

Reckless...

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<@David> eh?
<@David> damn i meant PAID
<@David> I get PAID today
<@David> dammit


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Solution

I know this thread is very old, but it still comes up high on Google's results, so I thought I'd post the solution I found.

Winamp stores window settings in the studio.xnf file under your winamp profile. In Windows 7, this is C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Winamp\studio.xnf

Close Winamp.
Open studio.xnf in Notepad or a similar text editor.
Find the following xml (replace "Bento" with your active skin name):

HTML:

<entry name="Bento_nomax_x" value="1770" />
<entry name="Bento_nomax_y" value="-187" />

Change the negative value(s) to something like 10.
Save the file.
When you reopen Winamp, it should be fixed! :congrats:

See here for more info: http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=164598