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Tuesday, April 03, 2007

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Can't Hit Those Control Buttons On Your UMPC In Low Res? Try This

- Warner Crocker

Umpc3In a blog post talking about screen resolution and how the human eye works Vikram Madan is hailing a new “pseudo-power-toy” for Ultra-Mobile PCs. The UMPC Scroller utility will correct one of the bizarrest problems that UMPC owners are more than familar with. In the native low-res screen resolutions many dialogue boxes pop-up with the contorls, (OK, Cancel, etc..) off the screen so that you can’t access them without moving to a higher resolution.

The UMPCScrollbar Utility runs in the background and pops up an on-screen scrollbar whenever it detects a non-reisizable dialog taller than the available working screen estate. The scrollbar then allows you to nudge the dailog buttons that would otherwise be inaccessible.

This is Vista only. I haven’t tried it out yet, but if it works as advertised, this will come in quite handy.

UPDATE: Got an opportunity to load this up and try it out. It works as advertised. Quite a find.

Check it out here.

 

 



Tuesday, April 03, 2007 8:01:55 AM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
Warner, run and test it! this could be called the eight wonder of the world!
Tuesday, April 03, 2007 8:26:36 AM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
I've tested it and it works really well - a must have utility for UMPC owners.
Tuesday, April 03, 2007 9:01:37 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
This utility does not work on my Samsung Q1 with Vista preinstalled. It shows the red "X" box but doesn't show the slider which would actually allow me to nudge the box up or down.

A couple of other Q1 owners have reported the same issue.
Bill Anderson
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